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 #:
000502
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:
August 29, 2022
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CLOSE UP From the morass of uninteresting productions that will make up the total of the films shown in France during the coming year, Clair's promises an escape for all those who value films worthy of the name. And such, let the picture factories do what the\' will, increase in numbers every moment'. Jean Lexauer. LUSTS OF MANKIND By Oswell Blakeston Lusts of jNlankind was made just before La IVagedie de la Rue It is the story of a famous opera singer who lives on cocaine and opium. (Cocaine for the practical needs of the day, and opium for the more decorative moments on a couch behind screens of beads.) The oriental grandeur is supplied by a sinister gentleman who uses Madame Thamara as a deco}^ to attract rich society patrons to the house, where he sells drugs and looks evil. So the daughter, the pure little daughter, must not know that her mother is alive and a dope fiend ; her father brings her up in the barbaric manner of fortv years ago. You must not do this or that. One day (the one day " of the sub-titles) a girl friend of the daughter persuades her to call on Thamara, and add a treasured autograph to her collection. The daughter gets the autograph 38