Close Up (Jan-Jun 1929)

Page scan 000772 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 #:
000772
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 FILM SOCIETY CLOSE A SEASON Mother, End of St. Petersburg, Bed and Sofa have been given to us by the Film Society this season, otherwise we might have spontaneously combusted on being presented with The Marquis of Bolibar as a farewell gift. On the same programme was Deslau's March of the Machines. We missed the music from the instrument of exclusive design which provided such a thrilling accompaniment when the him was screened in Paris. At the Studio 28 the fun at the emotional climax was to attempt to distinguish the hisses of one's neighbours from the glorious cacophonv of the epic instrument. C.O.D.y a mellow drama is the kind of burlesque that our amateurs love to give us, and the young men of Stoll Studio are rather playing into the enemy's hands by showing us the product of their boredom while they awaited the installation of sound equipment. George Jean Nathan has given the world the wonderful phrase; ''the producers found themselves with their aesthetic pants down " Dimitri Kirsanoff's sentimental Brumes d' Automne will not actual! V do harm if it is ever publiclv shown. O.B. MAN RAY— RUTTMANN— L. REINIGER Trois essais techniques dans une meme seance de CineClub, le 20 Avril, sur des matieres, au fond, passablement arides. 88