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 #:
000108
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 to-day the new possibilities of talkies and sound films and 't can be said that the arrival of these films was necessary to save the cinema from the danger of becoming sterile or of growing old. J.L. HOLLYWOOD NOTES At the same time that Hollywood handed Emil Jannings his hat it also handed him the highest honor within its gift, the annual award of merit bestowed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the most notable screen work during the year. It was Jannings' performance in The Way of All Flesh that won him this distinction. That Hollywood should at the same time have bowed him out and shown him the way back to Germany, is but typical of the new regime. The inarticulate actor, whatever his achievements, has been relegated to the limbo of cinema relics. * * * Fortunately for the sake of history, Nanook of the North and Mo ana were filmed before the advent of the talkies. What was to have been a sister picture to these two classics, done by the same director, Robert Flaherty, has been definitely shelved. This was a film record of the tribal life of the Hopi Indians of New Mexico, one of the most picturesque and interesting of the remaining Indian tribes. After months spent among them by Flaherty and his 78