Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 00082 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 #:
00082
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 forth to a theatre, while crowds of debutantes wait to be presented. TJiis is so manifestly impossible that it might just be allowed. In any case, the " buds " would be fun, sitting in hired cars, playing cards inside their bouquets, telling each others' fortunes, drinking champagne out of slippers and doing all the other things that the evening papers never fail to get excited about each year. These to cut in with chorus girls waiting to have an audition. And so on ; a documentary, cut wittily to give a sidelight on phases of London. They would all be rather absurd things, which are only worth our passing attention because of the way they crop up among perfectly serious things. 12. Satire or Talk. Either continuing the note of satire, in which case have a demonstration of Holding the Reins bv Lord Beaverbrook, a talk on Limelight bv the Prime ^linister, or My Life as a Politician by Mr. Selfridge, or else, leaving Whitehall, and taking a leaf from the B.B.C., have a decent, brisk talk on his daily work by a bus conductor, a hawker, a Whitehall lifeguard, a flower seller or what, quite seriously, a woman policeman thinks she is doing. She might explain whether the military police have any jurisdiction over drunk sailors; I never know, and always hurry by wide-bottomed trousers in the Strand, feeling unprotected. If so (meaning, if she did), there could be — 13. A Dance Turn, either by two of aforesaid sailors, by Snowball, that little black boy, or by some of those odd men who go round, accompanied by a barrel organ, to which they dance, dressed up as women ? But if not, those toys the hawkers on the steps of the church sell, could come to 52