Close Up (Jan-Jun 1930)

Page scan 000546 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 #:
000546
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 would be necessary for us to drive on into Los Angeles to Police Headquarters I doubt if there was a hair on his head that had been overlooked. Hunger had now overtaken us. We stopped under a tree and opened our luncheon parcels. To-day, no one would take any notice of such a common sight. But on this occasion, sixteen years ago, we collected a crowd in no time. Some of the girls, with an elaborate show of indifference, nibbled at their sandwiches with so exaggerated an elegance and such super-crooked little fingers that I now had a genuine hysterical breakdown. Millie, ashamed of me, bit savagely into hers and scolded me with her mouth full. We continued the journey into Los Angeles. The location man disappeared into the police station and nearly two hours passed before he emerged, permit in hand and registering black rage. It was, of course, now too late to take the skidding scene and he raved about the wasted day, the inefficiency of fire stations. Board of Trades and Police Headquarters. He did not include location men in his diatribe. My merry mood had by now worn off, and I was as solemn as anyone during the return journey. The first sight of note that met our gaze on the Inceville lot was Bob McKim with a bandage tied rakishly round his head. What are you supposed to be? " Millie inquired innocently. He gave her a look in which was no vestige of his morning effulgence. " I have been ! he announced gloomily. I was cast in a Western bar room fight. I wish to God I knew what guy it w^as that broke a beer bottle on my skull." 872