Close Up (Jul-Dec 1929)

Page scan 00095 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1929
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00095
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 established centers of European art and culture, each of which in the beginning of film history had the same opportunity as Hollywood, if not even far greater opportunity, have been signally outstripped by this aggressive upstart of the Pacific coast with its Yankee genius for sensing the taste of the public and giving the world what it v^ants. And now and again, while Europe has looked on agape and scornful at the talking film, Hollywood has discerned the signs of the times, has set industriously to work, and with characteristic confidence has staked its whole existence on the new order of cinema creation. That there should follow a fresh outbreak of alarm and protest from puritan and purist is quite to be expected. Hollywood merely making motions was disturbing enough ; but that this forward creature should now have a tongue, presents truly a most serious situation for those w^ho feel themselves entrusted with the guardianship of traditions and proprieties. Clifford Howard. E 65