Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 00024 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jan-Jun 1930
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00024
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 LP favourable by exciting rumours of the imminence of a general election. The rumours materiaUsed. Parliamentary ranks were thinned. Members were busy in their constituencies. Then came the election and its attendant passions and when finally the petition was presented it was to a house more than usually tense and reverberating with dramatic political interests, with which quite naturally it failed to compete. Nothing remained to be done but to hope for possible results from a question addressed at a suitable moment to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Some weeks ago, when it became necessary to appoint a new chairman for the board of film censors, a sympathetic member hopefully suggested that a favourable opportunity was now in being for an overhauling of the film censorship in general. The Home Secretary refused to consider the matter, contenting himself with stating his complete satisfaction with the censorship as at present constituted. A final effort was made last week when Colonel Wedgwood asked the Home Secretary whether he would set up on behalf of films of artistic, scientific and educative value a special category, in order to permit the presentation of such films under suitable restrictions in their original form. Mr. Clynes replied by reminding his right honourable and gallant friend that it rests with the local authority to decide the conditions under which cinematograph films may be exhibited and that, therefore, he had no authority to takeaction in the matter. This quiet remark falls upon our effort with the effect of a dismissing smile. But though its outw^ard and visiblehistory ends here and apparently fruitlessly, the unseen> 10