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 #:
000443
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Early Cinema, Global Cinema, and Switzerland
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 rationnelle entre les divers clubs constitues, entre ces clubs et les artistes independants du film, aussi. Aux puissantes organisations des producteurs de films industriels il fallait opposer un bloc defensif et pour cela rassembler les fovers 6pars du cinema artistique et independant, cr^er une centrale de location, oil viennent converger les essais isoles des auteurs de merite. Assurer a la fois une plus grande facility de composition des programmes des seances de clubs priv6s et encourager, retribuer meme les efforts des artistes independants, voil^ ce que permettra une telle organisation. Est-ii besoin de dire qu'elle etait d'elementaire necessite 1 Sur initiative de ^Ir. Robert Aron, de Du Cinema, un Congress International Du Cinema Independant sl ete convoque a La Sarraz, dans le pittoresque chateau de Madame de Mandrot, qui siegera du 2 au 7 Septembre. Son but : atteindre aux objectifs signales ci-dessus. A ce iour, le Congres a deja reuni les delegations de 12 pays differents. Signalons, au nombre des personnalites eminentes du monde cinegraphique qui nous occupe : Cavalcanti, Rene Clair, jNIoussinac, Hans Richter, Ruttmann, Lupu Pick, Eisenstein, Marinetti, Prampolini et Alberto Sartoris, deja presents. Une petite Societe des nations, comme on le voit, dont les decisions seront, aux yeux des cinephiles, pour le moins aussi importantes que celles prises a Geneve par les gouvernements. Mais tandis que ces derniers songent a desarmer sans hate ni conviction, a La Sarraz c'est d'armement qu'il est question, armement rapide et minutieux, mobilisation generate de toutes les unites agissantes, preparation de plans de campagne definis en vue d'assurer au film artistique sa place au soleil et aux gourmets des salles 305