Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 000245 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 #:
000245
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 231 melody, to the chords, to* the rhythm, to the tempo ; entending, mingling, exploding, dying away. * * * That's what it looks like, that's what we look like. There are still people ready to make experiments sometimes, — in consequence of their standing apart from the film industry, or of their peculiar position within this industry, where — now as ever — Ufa is dominant. There are also other firms not lacking in sound impulses even nowadays. Whether, in view of economic conditions, these impulses are likely to last any time, is doubtful. While these unsteady conditions prevail, — now as before, grotesque though it may seem, the only promising factors remain the concerns of the patentees and licence holders, Tobis and Klangfilm. The next stages in the development of the German film industry depend on whether they and the capitalists will take an interest in it, and on the utilization of the patents which have been bought by the capitalists. And if, after the solving of the economic crisis, anything remains or not of the German film, depends on their desire to continue the work and to utilize their patents. A. Kraszna-Krausz. Shepherd boys lighting torches for a festival in " On the Mountains and in the Valleys," a Czech film by Karel Plicka. Petits pdtres, allumant des torches pour un festival, dans le film tcheque de Karel Plicka: " Sur les monts et dans les vallees." Hirtenknaben, die Fackeln fiir ein Fest anziinden. Aus " Auf den Berga und in den Talern," einem Film von Karel Plicka. E 2