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 #:
000480
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 FOUR FEATHERS. Tense, sporting mothers brought their bowler-hatted offspring. Remembah, this is England's glory. Cooper and Schoedsack in a flurry of splenetic National Anthematising. The animals were nice. Their animals could not be otherwise. But the rest was not really very funny, though the bowser hats rose like brodericks on bayonets in a military three cheers. It was preceded by the world's wittiest film. A synchronised cartoon entitled When the Cat's Away, We'll say no more as Mr. Herring has promised to write on it next month. But, in the meantime, see it if you can. It is interesting, in spite of the bowler hats of Young England, to take a look at the recently published Educational Survey, from the Secretariat of the League of Nations. This contains the interesting result of an enquiry conducted by Mrs. C. N. Wilson into the child's reaction to war films. This enquiry was set in the form of a questionnaire, which asked : — 1. What War films have you seen? 2. Write down the name of one of these films. (a) How long ago did you see it? (b) What do you remember best? (c) What do you think of our side? (d) What do you think of the other side ? (e) What did the film make you think of war? 342