Close Up (Mar-Dec 1932)

Page scan 000250 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1932
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000250
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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232 CLOSE UP lonesome and confirmed pedant becomes finally a living person with a friendly relationship towards his young pupils. Although there is a certain dependency on Girls in Uniform, the new Czech film is more valuable in one respect : it approaches closely to actual present-day student life and is not enclosed in any " period " setting. There is nothing more probable than that your knowledge in school was rather fragmentary, that you did not always give the correct answer and that many things fascinated you more than Homer. No wonder you were in conflict with your professors — one of whom was undoubtedly extremely severe. In 1932 he bears accidentally a Czech name Klec and is professor of mathematics. Karel Kafka is one of his students and though the name may seem to you rather odd, I am certain you will know him. He is a boy of nineteen, a constant loser, unlucky in everything, for instance when he finally stands at the blackboard, the figures before him seem an insoluble puzzle, though, certainly he is by no means a stupid boy. His friend, Jan Simon, with whom he shares rooms, is one of those lucky men who have inherited many advantages. He learns easily and the girls with whom he comes in contact respond to him more willingly M. Svoboda, as Karel Kafka, the student, and Jindrich Plachta as Professor Klec, in " Before PassExamination." M. Svoboda, qui interprete Vetudiant Karel Kafka, et, dans le role du professeur Klec, Jindrich Plachta. " Avant les examens." M. Svoboda als Karel Kafka, der Student iind Jindrich Plachta als Professor Klec in " Vor dem Rigorosum."