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 #:
000448
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 tions (trades unions, co-operatives, etc.) — and, in particular, by the cinema-organisations — are allowed. By educational films are understood only films of a political-educational, scientific-educational and of a scholastic or chronicle (news) character. The purpose of these films must be to convey to the spectators information regarding some branch of knowledge of social, political and cultural life. The hiring and sale of the educational films will he effected by the corresponding organisations under the general supervision and control of Sov-Kino. The so-called CHICHERIX courses of foreign languages are making an attempt to utilise the kino for the purpose of teaching foreign languages. In the ARTES cinema the film Xanook was exhibited, with specially prepared captions in the English language. The captions are drawn up in such a way that the spectator — if he had the very slightest knowledge of the language — could, comparing them with the pictures shown on the screen, grasp the meaning of the words. The text of the captions will also be read aloud by the teacher conducting the courses, in order that the audience may master the correct pronunciation. Exhibitions of this nature will be organised regularly every week by the director of the courses. ^ * * VOSTOK-KINO (East-Kino). In the desert of Karakum in the country of the Turkomans the Cinematographic Group of the director, Y. Raisman and 310