Close-Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Record Details:

Title:
Close-Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1928
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000409
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Global Cinema, Switzerland, and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
As an active film magazine, CLOSE UP lasted only a short time, from 1927 to 1933. Yet the legacy of this English-language periodical, which was published in Switzerland, continues to matter. Edited by Bryher and her husband Kenneth Macpherson, CLOSE UP became THE magazine for energetic debates about the nature of cinema and manifestos imagining new forms of filmmaking and spectatorship. The magazine published articles by filmmakers, such as Sergei Eisenstein, and female literary modernists, such as H.D. and Gertrude Stein. As film scholar Anne Friedberg explains in the anthology CLOSE-UP, 1927-1933: CINEMA & MODERNISM, 'CLOSE UP became the model for a certain type of writing about film -- writing that was theoretically astute, politically incisive, critical of films that were simply 'entertainment.' For six and a half years, CLOSE UP maintained a forum for a broad variety of ideas about the cinema; it never advocated a single direction of development, but rather posed alternatives to existing modes of production, consumption, and film style.' Like Friedberg's own writing, CLOSE UP continues to be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of film and media theory. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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CLOSE UP profiter de son initiative. II serait bien regrettable que cet etat de choses ne se modifiat pas tout naturellement par une sensible augmentation de Teffectif . Tout recemment, quelques cinephiles recurent une carte d'invitation les priant d'assister a la projection du film La Mere " de Pudowkin. Cette carte mentionnait la creation d'un second club intitule : Club du nouveau film au sujet duquel aucune communication n'avait ete faite dans la presse. Quelle aubaine ! voir enfin Tun des chefs-d'oeuvre russes ! Fideles au rendez-vous nous nous sommes rendus vers un petit cinema local ou, a I'heure indiquee, nous trouvons un attroupement insolite. Un ukase tardif des autorites venait de defendre la projection " en prive " du film. Le pretexte, purement politique, evidemment, d'autant plus que les organisateurs de la seance n'etaient autres que certains militants socialistes. Mais une assemblee reunie sur le champ adressa une protestation aux autorites et decida de constituer le nouveau club en luttant avec la derniere energie pour la liberte du film a Geneve, centre international comme dit (i-dessus. II nous est indifferent, a vrai dire, que ce soit celui-ci ou celui-la, blanc, noir ou rouge, qui apporte a Geneve les chefs-d'oeuvre sovietiques, pourvu seulement que ceux-ci soient projetes. Mais la politique, ici comme ailleurs, joue son role nefaste et regente le domaine du film. F. ChEV ALLEY. 55