Close Up (Jul-Dec 1930)

Page scan 000514 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 #:
000514
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 Claudel, Gide . . . Honegger, La musique hindoue . . . Shakespeare . , . Moliere — Cinematographic ! Gide and his Voyage an Congo ; Honegger, whose music was synchronised to J'avais un fidcle amant ; Shakespeare a point of appeal in Fairbank's Taming of the Shrew ; MoHere, the portrayal of whose Tartuffe must have given such joy to Jannings; also Cendrars, and presumably Gance means Blaise Cendrars, original still among modern living French authors. Le Plan de V Aiguille by Blaise Cendrars (c'est a toi, mon cher Abel, que je dedie ce roman) commences the adventures of Dan Yack, which lead on to a later volume Les Confessions de Dan Yack, a book not written but entirely dictated into a Dictaphone. Rouleaux " take the place of chapitres to describe the film company, which the rich adventurer Dan Yack founds in order to see his beloved Mireille upon the screen. The realism of Mireille's descriptions of their visits together to the quaint local cinema makes one doubt if the facts are entirely fictitious. Quand c'etait un film de Louise Fazenda qui passait, on louait la loge pour huit jours et nous venions tous les jours I'applaudir. Mon grand avait une veritable passion pour la Fazenda, il la denichait dans tous les films, meme dans ceux ou elle ne faisait que de la figuration. II disait que c'etait la femme la plus comique du monde parce qu'elle ne faisait pas comique, mais qu'elle etait naturellement gauche." Gance who admires Cendrars, Cendrars who dedicates to Gance, Cendrars who in 1919 wrote La Fin du Monde, Gance who to-day makes the film La Fin du Monde. Versatile Cendrars, author of such subjects as Anthologie 336