Close Up (Mar-Dec 1931)

Page scan 000366 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 #:
000366
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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Contributors to Vol. VIII. Birt, Dan : Be British Principles of Film Recording Blakeston, Oswell (O.B.) : Can Cinema be Taught ? . . Check-up On Technique, No. 2 Stills and Their Relation to Modern Cinema Two Little Stories Bryher : Berlin, April 1931 Hollywood Code, The Chadwick, Mary : Educational and Cultural Film Commission Costa, Alves : Notes on the Portuguese Cinema. . Deslaw, Eugen : My First Sound Film Duckworth, L. B. : Certain General Conclusions Future of the Amateur Film Movement, The Eisenstein, Serge : Dinamic Square, The Principles of Film Form Herring, Robert : English Television Howard, Clifford : Coming Revolution, The Education as a By-Product Hollywood Review. . Reflections Koch, Carl: Japanese Cinema Kraszna-Krausz, A. : Before the Microphone of German Broadcasting First Russian Soundfilms Season's Retrospect, A Lenauer, Jean : Petite Lise, la Macpherson, Kenneth : As Is Ogino, Y. : Before Daybreak Plicka, Karel : On the Mountains and in the Valleys Potamkin, H. A. : New Kino, The Novel into Film Richardson, Dorothy : Continuous Performance Santar, Karel : Brief History of Czech Motion Pictures Segal, Mark : Eye and Ear in the Theatre Stenhouse, C. E. . . . . . . : Reve du Poete, la Two Films Tonecki, Zygmunt : Preliminary of Film Art Theatre of the Future and the Talking Film Weinberg, Herman G. : Notes from America Prelude to a Chriticism of the Movies Young, Gordon : On Film Patrol Page 284 200 100 311 20 211 126 234 & 280 55 17 & 325 61 207 52 2 & 91 167 286 214 46 112 318 296 122 300 225 44 71 & 220 290 96 64 267 182 & 304 34 38 134 232 193 & 321 27 188 62 108