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 #:
000482
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 It is a good sign, that the recognition of the bad quality of the average him becomes more and more popular ; that an increasing number of people rebel against it. And I hope, too, that there will be a day when a huge majority of good and moral films will make censorship an entirely superfluous institution — instead of its being a hindrance to the few good films that exist to-day. A good cultural review " of the talkies endeavours to explain the exceedingly involved state of the matter and to keep us up to date with regard to the latest German and international productions. Not only film-art but also film-artists are in the scope of this nicely illustrated magazine and we find a lot of photos, drawings, and articles on the leading actors, directors, critics and cameramen. So that everyone who likes the cinema will find many rewarding features in this monthly review. Trude Weiss. ]\Iary Fields, director of non-fiction subjects for British Instructional Films, is completing Deferred Payment, a drama, for The British Social Hygiene Association. The story is of a purser who, on becoming engaged to a girl, reads a leaflet which sends him to a herbalist. He spends a lot of money, and thinks he is cured. At first all is well, but, after the baby, the girl develops his disease, and the second baby is blind. The film has been made with all the technique and polish of an ordinary production, and Miss 344