Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 000208 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 #:
000208
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 spiritual. A new instrument is in the hands of those who are moved to create. If they will make adequate use of it the emotional possibilities are beyond divining. I greet them in advance with deep and joyous confidence. Jeax Lexauer. CINEMA IN THE ARGENTINE South America, and more especially the Argentine, seem to have been forgotten by those who discuss film centres. Yet, though' the Argentine is, comparatively speaking, a non-producer, it must be one of the world's greatest consumers. It is perhaps the only big and important country in the world which consumes films without producing them ; and it may, therefore, be considered as a centre which is not biased by the tendencies of its own productions. It becomes an impartial judge. What makes the country even more impartial is the fact that it is also one of the world's most cosmopolitan towns. There is a huge colony of twenty-thousand English ; fifteenthousand Germans. Colonies in varying sizes of French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, North Americans, Chinese, Japanese, Poles, Checko-Slovaks. Every single race in the world is represented in large numbers. Take all this as a whole, a mass. Think of it as a mixture, 140