Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 00025 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 #:
00025
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 results cannot be estimated. The strongholds have been battered and the invading army reinforced by the countless numbers who in relation to this attempted reformation learned for the first time exactly how matters stand. All these, and others enlightened by them, will be ready to add their weight to any further attempt that may be made. Dorothy M. Richardson. The editors of Close L p would like to take this opportunity of thanking Miss Doroth}' M. Richardson for her very valuable work in connection with the censorship petition. No one worked more assiduously in collecting signatures and in seeking to ensure that the petition when ready was brought to the notice of the persons most likely to be in sympathy and to lend active aid to the movement. IN THE LAND WHERE IMAGES MUTTER Muttering images, not as yet uttering. The stutter would be more interesting. The most fascinating experience of audibility I have had in these couple of months since my return after an absence of fifteen good prodigal months was at a hearing of The Broadway Melody at a Loew neighbourhood theatre. The mechanism went wrong and suddenlv the characters began to hiccough, stutter, blurt, much in the effect I produced in my childhood by shutting my mouth off and on with the palm of my hand while speaking. 11