Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 000243 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 #:
000243
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 229 Under the summer sun. An old Czech peasant from " On the Mountains and In the Valleys," by Karel Plicka. Au bon soleil d'ete. Un vieux paysan tcheque du film de Karel Plicka : " Sur les monts et dans les v allies." In der Sommersonne. Ein alter tschechischer Bauer aus dem Film " Auf den Bergen und in den Tdlern," von Karel Plicka. achieved : a most subtle preserve without any possible taste of its tin container, a comestible with relish that fills the stomach but does not stimulate. Something played out. Nothing pregnant of future. * * * To the present time none of the more important stages in the development of the sound film were determined bv people to whom what is new in the film — that is sound — was something already familiar, and the film itself something new ; but by those to whom the film itself meant something established, and to whom the new factor — sound — was previously unknown. The important directors of the silent film became the important directors of the sound film. With his criminal drama " M '," Fritz Lang has given a classic example of the fact that the laws which governed the silent film, the laws concerning the disposition, structure and rhythm, need not be changed when applied to the sound-film. Here was to be seen distinctly that the sound film only E