Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1931
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
0007
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:
November 07, 2023
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CLOSE UP Editor : K. Macpherson Assistant Editors : Bryher ; Oswell Blakeston Published by POOL London Office : 26 Litchfield Street, Charing Cross Road, W.C.2. Swiss Office : c/o F. Chevalley, Case Postale, Carouge s/ Geneve. Contents Page The Dinamic Square. Serge Eisenstein 2 Notes on the Portuguese Cinema. Alves Costa 17 Stills and their Relation to Modern Cinema. Oswell Blakeston 20 The Theatre of the Future and the Talking Film. Zygmunt Tonecki 27 Brief History of Czech Motion Pictures . Karel Santar 34 Eye and Ear in the Theatre. Mark Segal 38 La Petite Lise. Jean Lenauer ...... 44 Education as a By-Product. Clifford Howard 46 Strange Adventure of David Gray. 50 The Future of the Amateur Film Movement. L. B. Duckworth 52 Educational and Cultural Film Commission. Mary Chad wick 55 My First Sound Film. Eugen Deslaw 61 Prelude to a Criticism of the Movies. Herman G. Weinberg 62 The New Kino. H. A. Potamkin 64 FEATURE ARTICLE. — As Is, by Kenneth Macpherson 71 Comment and Review. Notice to Readers and Contributors ; International Review of Educational Cinematography ; Oxford Film Society ; News from Holland ; Recapitulation ; Borderline ; Cape Forlorn ; White Man's Negro. London Correspondent : Robert Herring Paris Correspondent : Jean Lenauer Berlin Correspondent : A. Kraszna-Krausz Geneva Correspondent : F. Chevalley Hollywood Correspondent : Clifford Howard New York Correspondent : H. A. Potamkin Moscow Correspondent : P. Attasheva Vienna Correspondent : Trude Weiss Subscription Rate, All Other Countries 15 shillings (English) per year Copyright 1931 by Pool.