Close Up (Jul-Dec 1930)

Page scan 00058 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1930
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00058
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 the ravaging will be pardoned. Added to which, I gather that the author is unaware of the connection betw^een his hero and the cinema, that he is unconscious of the service he has done in such careful analysis of the methods and working of the greatest of Naturalistic writers. Paul Roth a. AS IS IN PARIS In polyglot Paris in whose Boulevard cinemas sub-titles are projected both in English and French, a new salle specialisee " has made its appearance in which sound-films spoken entirely in English or American are presented. This salle is called the Cinema du Pantheon and in its opening programme, the original American version of The Love Parade presented the opportunitv of comparing the French with the American version, between wliich, I learnt, there is a very considerable difference. The nature-film Ches les Mangetirs d'Hommes turned in the south seas by Andre Paul Antoine and Robert Lugeon, has broken all attendance records at the Cameo Cinema. It is certainly the most natural document of native life which has yet been made. There are definitely no real actors nor studio-shots to lend entertainment value. The photography is not constant, but these two Frenchmen, alone amongst cannibals and not knowing from day to dav what the end of 32