Close Up (Jan-Jun 1929)

Page scan 000497 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 #:
000497
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 should be more interesting than most of the talkies we have heard to date. Many enquiries reach us as to release dates of films in Germany or how people find out what films are showing in Berlin. The German system is quite different from the English. A film is given a week or a fortnight's run at one of the dozen big kinos in Berlin. It is then immediately released to the smaller cinemas. So that several may be showing the same film at the same time, but in different districts. It is infinitely to be preferred to the English method. It is however sometimes difficult to find out what is showing in Berlin as the small cinemas naturally onlv advertise in their own districts. Therefore the best way to find out if some Russian or German film is showing, is to ask the renter of the film to advise at which cinema the film is being shown. Addresses of the renters can be found in the telephone book. AN AMATEUR FILM SOCIETY A long felt want in the British Film Industry has, we hope, at last been made good by the formation of the Jewish Amateur Film Society, whose declared objects are to foster and encourage the art of film production in all its many departments, and to improve the technical, artistic and literary standard in the film industry to-day. 79