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 #:
000478
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 LUCKY STAR. A New Borzage Gayxor-Farrel Slapstick. Perhaps the funniest film of the year. Charles does not point the waif's wee nose to the stars, but washes her " inside and out ". But you have to hear the Gaynor say it to get the chuckle. Photography rotten. You know those studio exteriors, country lanes and such. When anybody moves a million half shadows, spread like a starfish, follow the movement shamelessly, but don't suggest a million suns shine on these quiet countrysides. Ophthalmic goitre would do as much if you wanted to see things that way. THE CRIMSON CIRCLE. British Internationalizing Edgar "Wallace. Musical Effects by Edmund ]\Ieisel. Somebody once spoke of noises " Meiseling " themselves into the subconscious. We lauded this happy discoverv in happier memory of Potemkin, Berlin, Hoppla, Ten Days. The man, then, who had given us " effects " for the world's best films was now to give them for the worst. Or, be kind, and say near-worst. The programme told us a lot about a method that cannot have existed, and if it had, would have given only one kind 340