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 #:
000444
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 obscures un regal, au moins, par semaine. De toute Evidence, les pionniers de I'art cinegraphique, reunis dans I'austere demeure de Madame de Mandrot, ne traiteront pas a la legere les questions a I'ordre du jour. On y fera de bon travail, n'en doutons pas, si Ton ne s'abandonne a des discussions byzantines. Freddy Cheyalley. THE INDEPENDENT CINEMA CONGRESS An international congress of the independent cinema was held from the second to the seventh of September at the chateau of Madame de Mandrot at la Sarraz. S. M. Eisenstein was present as delegate from Russia. He came at the last moment (the other two delegates not having been able to obtain the Swtss visa) accompanied by his assistant G. Alexandroff and his cameraman E. Tisse. Alberto Cavalcanti, Leon jNIoussinac, Janine Boussounouse, J. G. Auriol and Robert Aron (who was president of the congress) represented France, Walter Ruttmann, Hans Richter and Bela Balazs came from Germany (Pabst was prevented from being present) J. Isaacs and Ivor Montagu from England, Montgomery-Evans from the United States, F. Rosenfeld from Austria, Prampolini and Sartoris from Italy, M. Franken from Holland, Moituro Tsu}i:ja and Hi jo 306