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 #:
000410
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 COMMENT AND REVIEW The Black Bear, a film made by the Manchester Film Society, has been taken by Messrs. Gibbs Ltd., 15, Great Ducie Street, Manchester, for showing. Any enquiries connected with the hiring of the film should be sent to this firm direct. It is certainly a step forward in the right direction and all amateur film societies will be interested in the news. It is said that an amazing development of the theatre in America was the result of a few years' work there by the little theatre movement. In a like manner the level of English cinematography may depend upon the efforts of those making films because they are interested in them as an art, rather than because they hope for quick profit on turning out films made to the pattern of last year's success. As The Kinemato graphic Weekly pointed out in a recent article, appealing to the popular idea tends always to fall below what the crowd really wants and makes for careless use of technical materials available. * When Prince Achmed was recently revived at the Kamera in Berlin Lotte Reiniger, the maker, interrupted to protest against the cutting which had been made. We understand that the public warmly applauded her protest. Which is all to the good. Public support for sorely abused directors' rights is universally needed. 56