Close Up (Jul-Dec 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Jul-Dec 1930
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000553
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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Is there anything more exciting — than to turn out a package of old magazines on a wet day, and read of the events of a dozen years ago which you hved through and then forgot ? So, whether the silent film develops a new form of its own, or whether the talkie will sweep it into a dinosaur extinction, 1929 marked an epoch in cinematography and the film from thence has progressed in an entirely different direction. Some day you will wonder exactly what happened before 1929 — and was the silent film as good as you thought it was, in the primeval epoch before microphones and wiring. Why not buy these Pool books on the silent film to store in your library ? You will find them of absorbing interest in 1935. FILM PROBLEMS OF SOVIET RUSSIA By Bryher Price 6 Only a few copies remain. This book contains a history of the most productive years of the Russian " silent " cinema, together with many illustrations never published elsewhere. ANATOMY OF MOTION PICTURE ART By Eric Elliott Price 7 6 About thirty copies left. A study of the technique of early cinematography, in its development until the " talkie," extremely valuable for reference. 26 LITCHFIELD STREET J (Charing Cross Road), LONDON W.C.2