Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 000210 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 #:
000210
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 Ten Days, was another success. It was shown in a practically uncut form, and was hailed bv all critics as a masterpiece. Here are two outstanding films recording revolution exhibited without " let or hindrance " in every part of a free thinkers' country. Did the Argentine navy throw their officers overboard? I3id the workers seize their arms and mob the congress ? Sex. Intelligent sex culture films for the edification of the people are shown in several cinemas. Russian and German productions. These films are advertised in an ordinar\manner and are generally exhibited uncut. Films treating venereal diseases are similarly shown. Anv citizen desirous of obtaining an education or relieving himself of the usual abnormal ignorance on the subject is at libertv to do so. In addition to the large choice of films of every nationality being run in the commercial cinemas, there has recentlv been formed the Cine Club de Buenos Aires ". This club gives weeklv lectures, discussions and exhibitions, having a choice of all old copies from renting houses in the town. In the case of U.S.S.R. films the club has been allov\'ed to give exhibitions of Russian films before a general release : such being the case with The Peasant Women of Riazan and some films of Dziga Vertof. The American film capitalists' dream with respect to talkingfilms has almost been realised : that foreign countries shall be so impressed with talkies, that they will learn English to go and see them ; or that they will be content to listen to a strange language : in mute silence listen to a noise. 142