Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 000365 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 #:
000365
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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Contents of Vol. VIII Page As Is. Kenneth Macpherson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 & 220 Be British. Dan Birt . . . . 284 Before Daybreak. Y. Ogino . . . . . . ~ . . . . . . ... . . . . 290 Before the Microphone of German Broadcasting. A. Kraszna-Krausz . . . . 122 Berlin, April 1931. Bryher . . 126 Brief History of Czech Motion Pictures. Karel Santar . . . . . . . . 34 Can Cinema be Taught. Oswell Blakeston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Certain General Conclusions. L. Duckworth . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Check-up On Technique, No. 2. Oswell Blakeston . . . . . . . . . . 311 Comment and Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73, 140, 239 & 325 Coming Revolution, The. Clifford Howard . . .. .. .. .. .. .. 214 Continuous Performance. Dorothy Richardson . . . . . . . . . . 182 & 304 Dinamic Square, The. Serge Eisenstein .. .. .. .. .. .. . .2 & 91 Education as a By-Product. Clifford Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Educational and Cultural Film Commission. Mary Chadwick . . . . . . 55 English Television. Robert Herring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 Eye and Ear in the Theatre. Mark Segal . . . . . . . . ... . . . . 38 First Russian Soundfilms. A. Kraszna-Krausz . . . . . . ... . . . . 300 Future of the Amateur Film Movement, The. L. B. Duckworth . . . . . . 52 Hollywood Code, The. Bryher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 & 280 Hollywood Review. Clifford Howard .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 112 Japanese Cinema. Carl Koch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 My First Sound Film. Eugen Deslaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 New Kino, The. H. A. Potamkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Notes from America. Herman Weinberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Notes on the Portuguese Cinema. Alves Costa .. .. .. .. .. 17 & 325 Novel Into Film. H. A. Potamkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 On Film Patrol. Gordon Young . . . . . . . . . . . .' ' . . . . 108 On the Mountains and in the Valleys. Karel Plicka . . . . . . . . . . 96 Petite Lise, La. Jean Lenauer ..." • . . . . . . . . . . . . • • 44 Preliminary of Film Art. Zygmunt Tonecki . . . . . . .... 193 & 321 Prelude to a Criticism of the Movies. Herman G. Weinberg . . . . . . . . 62 Principles of Film Form. Serge Eisenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Principles of Film Recording. Dan Birt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Queen Kelly and Queen Victoria. H.A.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Reflections. Clifford Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • 318 Revu du Poete, la. Stenhouse .. ' "... .. .. .. .. .. ■■ 134 Seasons Retrospect, A. A. Kraszna-Krausz . .-. . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Stills and their Relation to Modern Cinema. Oswell Blakeston . . . . . . 20 Strange Adventure of David Gray . . . . .... 50 Theatre of the Future and the Talking Film, The. Zygmunt Tonecki . . . . 27 Three Days .... . . . . . . . , . . . . . . ■ • • • 308 Two Films. C. E. Stenhouse .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Two Little Stories. O.B. .. .. ... ... .. .... .. ■ ■■ 211