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 #:
000453
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Global Cinema, Switzerland, and Early 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 of introducing sound-films will also be kept in view in connection with the construction of village-clubs. With this end in view \\ifku is working out some plans for standard cinema theatres of the town and village type. The management of Vufku intends to despatch one of its workers to America for the purpose of studying the problems of the sound film. In the course of the present year 5 sound-film apparatuses will be purchased for the cinema-theatres in the Ukraine. The director, Dovjenko, author of the films Arsenal and Zvenigora, is about to stage a film The Earth, with his own scenario. * * * THE STATE CINEMA INDUSTRY IN GEORGIA. In preparation. Saba (director Chiarily, operator Polkevich, artist L. Gudiashvily, scenarist Alkhazishvily and Aravsky). This picture has been approved by the Soviet of Arts and is being issued for hire in the cinemas of Tiflis. The theme of the picture is the decline of a working family as a result of the drunkenness of the father — a workman. It is based on the life of the tramway workers in Tiflis ; the local press and the workers Avho have witnessed it have recognized the artistic achievements and the social significance of the picture. * * CENTRAL SOVKINO FACTORY. An expedition has set out from the Sovkino factory, headed by the director Ivanov Barkov and the operator Giber, to 315