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 #:
000450
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:
August 29, 2022
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CLOSE UP graphs showing the life of the natives of these extreme northern regions of the Soviet Federation. The following will take part in the expedition : director and operator V. Bluvstein, who had a share in the photography of the film, The Krassin, and the literary assistant, N. Shapnov — author of the book, Through the Ice for Italy. ^ ^ ^ PRODUCTION OF FILMS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. At the \^L"FKU film-factory at Odessa, the multiplicator, T. Weissmann, is working at a children's multiplicational picture. The Adventures of Boris Malyachiik (scenario by G. Ivanova). Theme : the adventures of a pioneer, accidentally finding his way into an aeroplane. At the Vufku film-factory at Kiev, the director, K. Bolotof (operator : P. Gorbenko) is organising a childrens' film The Pest, dealing with the subject of the struggle against hooliganism in the school. In the picture will be shown teaching in the school in accordance with the complex method and an excursion of the pupils. The director, Shtrizhak, with the operator, Ya. Kulish, is setting to work on a children's fiJm, The Boy from the Camp (scenario bv Sharansky) dealing with a Soviet Children's Colony. A film Komsomal (" Communist League of Youth ") is being staged by Ya. Pechorin with the operator, D. Seda. The photographs will be taken in Kiev and the surrounding 312