Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jan-Jun 1930
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00045
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:
November 03, 2022
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CLOSE UP who might be intellectually offended by the mediocrity of the story values in what, according to Universal, must now be considered an important work, George Marrion, Jnr., has been signed to re-write the book with emphasis on the comedy and homeliness of Dublin life. Under the title. The Dublin Dove, or The Jay Walkers of the Great White Way, the picture will be released by Universal as a Super Special. After innumerable conferences, Joe Schenck has scooped the talker rights of the Koran as a starring vehicle for Douglas Fairbanks. A super production of the Khayyam is planned by Warner Brothers, with Rin Tin Tin in the role of the Persian philosopher. It is authoratively stated that the cabaret set now being built for the tavern door sequence in this picture excels in magnificence and beautA' anything previously seen on the screen. The hope that L^niversal could sub-contract Lillian Gish' from United Artists for the title role in The Dublin Dove, has been abandoned. Instead, Laura La Plante Avill impersonate Joyce's immortal heroine, playing the part of an innocent servant girl who, distraught by the advances of her employer, nearly wrecks a motor car and a microphone, only to return to her boy friend — who works at the local distillery — in the end. Slithering down prismatic shafts of crystallised sound track, I learn that after baiting the scalps of the Wall Street wolves, William Fox has secured the dialogue rights of Paradise Regained, by the English writer, John Milton. 23