Close Up (Jan-Jun 1929)

Page scan 000770 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 #:
000770
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 grateful for the suggestion of the cigarette as the panacea and smoked about thirty to survive this httle " band ". They say that P. Bert is the youngest French director. French journaHsts take this as an excuse, we consider it a warning, and P.B. should be glad that he has found out in time ! The shorts at the Studio 28 are sharp commentary on one another. A gentleman said to us in London that he found the Secrets of Nature as abstract as Man Ray; we find Crystillisations more in tune with the antimacassar. Joris Ivens brings the steel trellis of a bridge into line in Pont D'Acier, Eisenstein. did not say a bridge is exciting, let us make a film about a bridge, a bridge was drawn into the net of the story. On the other hand, Ivens would turn the bridge into antimacassars, oblongs of pattern to be admired. How right Mr. Herring was, for Feyder gets the same stuff with the white ballerina skirts in his background to Les Nouveaux Messieurs. Still we did enjoy ourselves, and we hold that it is not a case of how seriously the so-called avant-garde is taking itself but how seriously some people are taking the black hats ! O.B. LE MALEMORT DU CANART. Most favoured of the critics told me he would like to make a film about I could not breathe when an approximate subject chanced to be broached idly in conversation, so afraid 86