Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 000328 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 #:
000328
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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310 CLOSE UP " Three Days," a Spanish avantgarde film by Xavier Giiell. " Trois jours," film d" avantgarde espagnol, par Xavier Giiell. " Drei Tage," ein spanischer Avantgardefilm von Xavier Guell. Arguments. Is the cafe keeper guilty? Scandal. The cafe keeper throws them out. Get out you fools ! Title. AN EXPERT IS STILL DELVING INTO THE MYSTERY. Still nature in the foreground (close up) and fish-giobe with a large fish swimming round. The End. (We hope we shall have the opportunity to see this film.) "Close Up" and a distinguished reader. The President of Czechoslovakia, President Masaryk, believes in the art of the film. " Close Up " compte un remarquable lecteur! Le President de la Tchecoslovaquie, M. Masaryk ne doute aucunement de Vart cinegraphique. " Close Up " und ein distinguierter Leser. Der Prasident dertschechoslowakischen Republik, Prasident Masaryk glaubl, dass es eine Filmkunst gibt.