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Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 000145 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1931
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000145
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 135 Part 3. Boule de Neige. (Enfants Terribles.) Little boy. Killed. Blood, blood, blood ! from mouth'. A nigger, nearly naked and with wire wings lies on boy. Sound accompaniment : a long buzz on one note. Nigger turns negative to fade completely out. The old house's balconies are the boxes of a theatre. Elegant audience watch HIM and HER playingcards next to little dead boy. " You're lost if you have not the Ace of Hearts." The required card is taken from the left hand side of bov. YES, symbol ! Nigger hand steals card and HE shoots himself again. A chimnev falls to the ground as in Prologue. FIN. Merely impressions. * * * AU PAYS DU SCALP the film taken by the Marquis de Wavrin during his long voyage to the sources of the! Amazon, has not at the time of writing been presented. It is certain however that the Marquis, above all a celebrated explorer and ethnologist, has made a film in which all artifice has been avoided. The " clou " of the film is the ceremony of the scalp. Whereas in the documentaire Chez les Mangeurs d'Hommes one never sees a man being eaten, I feel sure that the scalp scenes in the Marquis' film should be of interest — I have even handled some of the actual scalps which now adorn the Marquis' mantelpiece ! The flesh of the victim's face is removed from the Scalp from the Marquis de Wavrin's film, " The Scalp Country." " Au Pays du Scalp." Film du Marquis de Wavrin. Ein Skalp aus dem Film des Marquis de Wavrin " Das Land der Skalpe."