Close Up (Mar-Dec 1932)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1932
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000203
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Global Cinema, Switzerland, and Early 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:
February 22, 2024
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CLOSE UP Most of those collected in the exhibition have already been published by Close Up, of which magazine, specimen copies were on view. How landscapes look from the airship and the way from a bird's eye view to the readily designed map, as well as the different apparatus in use, were exhibited in the section for aerial photography, which gave to all, including the layman, an interesting survey of that branch. Only the University of Brussels and a physician from the Belgian Congo contributed to the section of scientific photography, and although the work shown was good, the division was far from being comprehensive. There were some excellent microphotographs of medical objects, as well as records of operations on the eye and typical symptoms of sleeping sickness. There was a complete collection of the books of photographs that are so popular nowadays and enlargements also from some of these volumes.* To conclude, we may say that the Brussels exhibition is one of the richest and greatest seen during the last years. Trude Weiss. * During the time the exhibition was held four special performances were arranged by the Club de VEcran, Brussels, at which, among others, films by Man Ray and Cavalcanti were shown ; the object of one evening was the French film of 1932. " Flight of Fancy " by Oswell Blakeston. " Envolee fa9itaisiste," par Oswell Blakeston. " Phantasiefliicht," von Oswell Blakeston.