Close Up (Jul-Dec 1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1929
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000103
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 PARIS NOTES From the 2nd to the 7th September, 1929, will be held in Switzerland at the Chateau de la Sarraz (property of Madame de Mandrot, and thanks to her hospitality) an International Congress of Independent Cinematography. The objects of the Congress are as follows : — To establish a permanent alliance between the independent groups (cinemas, salles specialisees) to effect the interexchange of independent films existing in various countries. Creation of groups and salles. To prepare the organisation of an International Production Co-operation, able to produce independent films according to the directives of an international commission. Such are the bare details of this Congress, of which the consequences could be enormous for the future of the independent cinema in Europe, and which would bring together some scores of the most noteworthy personalities of the young International Cinema. It is the Nouvelle Revue Francaise which has taken this initiative, and it is to be hoped that this congress will be of greater import than the multiple congresses which have latterly taken place, and which Vv^ere distinguished only by more or less interesting discussions, but w^hich never arrived at any result of practical value. •K * * I had the occasion to run into Jean Renoir recently, while he was playing opposite Catherine Hessling under the direction of Cavalcanti. Renoir told me of his misfortunes 73