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 #:
000128
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Early Cinema, Switzerland, 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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118 CLOSE UP Abel Gance takes the role of Christ in his " End of the World." Abel Gance incarnant le Christ dans sa " Fin du monde." Abel Gance stellt in seinem Film " Das Ende der Welt " Christus dar. equatorial Sumatra gathering the material for his present picture, for which a bright mark must be credited to Hollywood under whose auspices it was made. Then, too, there is Murnau's Tabu, recently released by Paramount. This is an idyllic film picturing the romantic primitive life of Bora Bora, one of the Society group of the South Sea archipelago. Exiling himself from Hollywood, where he was but scantily appreciated or understood, the creator of The Last Laugh and Sunrise spent a year and a half in this dolce far niente islet of the Pacific and devoted himself to a leisurely filming of this his last contribution to the screen. Using his own funds, and thus completelv independent of any commercial dictatorship, he made this picture in sympathetic collaboration with Robert Flahertv, to whom the world is indebted for those two cinematic classics, Nanook of the North and Moana. Out of a total of 250,000 feet of takes the charming photodrama of Tabu was created, with two native youngsters, Reri, the girl, and Matahi, the boy, as the leading characters;