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Close Up (Jan-Jun 1929)

Page scan 000475 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jan-Jun 1929
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000475
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:
June 20, 2024
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CLOSE UP happening, but that is not yet possible. We can at least make things interesting for them and let them get on instead of having to disentangle, by ceasing to be so silly about the cinema. We really might discover what it is, and that would be quite a good piece of work. It would do so much more good than being so damned serious, to consider just one or two perfectly plain facts, and think on them. It reallv is time we had a bit more cinema. A bit less quackery, a bit more appreciation of magic which is not cameratricks in black and white. Robert Herring. SOMMAIRE RESUME du numero de Sevrier cousacre a la censure La Grande-Bretagne a sa propre loi de prohibition qui est la censure, et son application, comme celle de tous les decrets liberticides en general, entraine des consequences souvent desastreuses. Ce n'est pas en signalant le fruit defendu que Ton peut arriver a sauvegarder la moralite publique Certes, il est malaise de controler I'influence de certains objets sur la foule et d'eloigner d'elle les sujets de curiosite malsaine. Mais pour reprimer les instincts de Thomme anti-social on a recours, parfois, a des mesures fort vexatoires. 57