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 #:
000481
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 This questionnaire was submitted to 4,022 children from 76 schools in Bradford, and to 4,000 children from schools in Kent, Lincolnshire and Oxford, and in ever}' case teachers were asked to do nothing to prejudice the replies one way or the other. The repHes revealed an overwhelming anti-war majority. 95 per cent, of all the cases examined were anti-war. The remaining 5 per cent, were in varying degrees pro-war. From these established facts it is evident enough that war films such as we have seen give to the child mind an impression of distaste and horror. We thank Herrn Wolfgang Ertel-Breithaupt and Herrn Hans Walter Kesselmaier, editors of Filmkiinstler und Filmkunsty for sending us some copies of their interesting German magazine. (Verlag : Berlin W 30, Rosenheimerstrasse 13). It calls itself a contribution to the history of contemporary films and talkies. We like the fresh and courageous criticism of this paper which does not shrink from honest judgment. Criticism of film production in general, of films, of certain societies and individuals. There is an article about film-morality that holds the attention. Question of Censorship again, but this time stated from another point of view looked at as the shadow of film morality : there is a lack of responsible men in the broader circles of film industry, speculation instead of creation, business instead of art. 343