Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000412 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1928
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000412
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Switzerland, Early Cinema, and Global 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:
July 25, 2024
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CLOSE UP yet?" . . . Lulu is found. And now, after long delay, Pandora will be filmed by Nero Film. Fritz Rasp, the immortal Villain-Of-The-Piece of Jeanne Ney, and many other films, is making three films for Derussa. * ^ Soviet operators have filmed the rescue of the Xobile expedition by Krassin, and this highlv interesting film is being shown in Russia. * * * The Film Guild of London is a new enterprise worthy of support and encouragement, to which we draw our readers' attention. This is an amateur society, the objects of which include the production of standard size films, at first with professional aid, for public exhibition; co-ordination of amateur societies; regular private exhibition of films not available to the general public ; advice and instruction in the writing of film plavs ; and the furtherance of the artistic and technical development of the Cinema. A membership of one thousand is hoped for, and applications for membership are particularly desired from scenario writers, electricians, and other technicians, as well as from artistes. The annual subscription is two guineas per year, which includes one year's subscription to the official organ, the Cinema World. The Board may admit, however, at their discretion, at the special rate of one guinea per annum, boys and girls still at school. After the first 250 members there will be an entrance fee of one guinea. Full particulars of the Guild may be obtained from the Hon. Secretary, ]\Ir. H. P. J. jMarshall, of 115,.Ilford Lane, Ilford. 58