Close Up (Jul-Dec 1928)

Page scan 000546 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 #:
000546
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 laughed even from the stage for the last twenty years ! There are Three Thumbnail Sketches by the Editor of Raoul Walsh, Ernest Lubitsch and Clarence Brown, which command admiration for their critical insight; and also the promise of similar analyses of the work and methods of C. B. de Milie, Erich Von Stroheim and D. W. Griffith for next month. We are given some penetrating criticisms of several films, including Potemkin, White Shadows in the South Seas and The Last Moment, of which the author says, a large fanfare of such stuff is not drama nor does it reach any mysterious depths With which we are in complete accord. The American Film Meteor is in every way a stimulating and — better still — sincere journal, with plenty of vigour and virility and a real comprehension of the meaning of " the motion picture as an art That it has no illustrations whatsoever would point to the probability that there is some definite prejudice against them, but apart from this, most of what it has to say is provocative and conducive to profound thought. Congratulations to its creators, who deserve the full success which we feel sure awaits them. K. M. Many letters have been received asking for information with regard to renting privately uncut versions of good foreign films for study. An article will probably appear in the December issue of Close Up on this point, as the situation in England with regard to private renting is full of difficulty. 74