Close Up (Jul-Dec 1929)

Page scan 000530 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1929
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000530
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:
June 20, 2024
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CLOSE UP SuPeRpRoDuCeR Of course, we are all familiar with Mr. Silverspan's likeness which is reproduced from time to time in that most exclusive " of fashionable periodicals, Smart People y where in common with Jimmy Petrikin, Irving Booth, and that sensation of our advance guard literature. Nana Noos, the superproducer finds a place of honor in the magazine's " Hall of Fame " as " the man who has made more dollars out of the movie-game and has given more pictures with sophisticatioUy punchy and real art to the world than anyone we know." That aquiline nose and those sharp eyes, denoting we are informed by a gentleman of the Press, shrewdness and genius in business affairs " that heavv chin to quote the same authority, " characteristic of born leaders of men " are revealed unmistakablv even on the printed page. And although in these scanty lines we may but trace, as it were, the footprints of the great man on the sands of time, leaving the weightier business of fathoming the profundities of his life history to the mighty pen of Billy Doran, the former butter and egg ad. man, (that Boswell, we may add in parenthesis, born again and born greater), nevertheless, movie-fans who know a hero " when they see him will, it is certain, discover for themselves some moral, some lesson, something, even in the casual crumbs of wisdom fallen from the table of the great. 364