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 #:
000541
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 Only when the man has mastered this problem does his psychology begin to grasp and unravel other problems. Seeing his neighbour working on the next bench drinking Vodka, he cries : " And you are boss ? You're a rogue ! " The Stump of an Empire ends with the following sub-title : ^'We have still much work to do, comrades ^^ This ending is particularly significant as the Film is deeply rooted in the social and political life of the Soviet country. It calls, not to sentimental self-worship, but to indefatigable, tireless work and frank admittance of errors and difficulties. The Film was produced and mounted in 14 months. The location scenes were shot in Odessa, Leningrad and Kharkov, but all scenes taken in these cities have been mounted as though belonging to one city; by this it is desired to point out that it was the aim of director F. Ermler to give the general aspect of this newly constructed country, a synthetic portrait of socialist construction. The Stump of an Empire is only the fifth production of Ermler and his group. A film made by him is known in Europe : Katka — the Paper Ranet (They who Live by the Street — in German: Die Von der Strasse Leben). P. Attasheva. Moscow, October, 1929. 375