Close Up (Mar-Dec 1932)

Page scan 000252 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 #:
000252
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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234 CLOSE UP Professor Klec {Jindrich Plachta) and Jan Sirtion {A. Novotny) the student. Le professeur Klec {Jindrich Plachta) et Jan Simon, etudiant {A. Novotny). Professor Klec (Jindrich Plachta) und Jan Simon {A. Novotny) der Student. Klec now lies in hospital and undergoes a successful operation. During his convalescence the spirit of comradeship in the hospital completes a change in him. Klec feels happy and receives the students with a new joy. Even Simon and Kafka come to the hospital to visit him. They all have a kind word at the tip of their tongues but it seems difficult to utter. So there is nothing to do but praise the weather, which is really glorious. This is in brief the simple story of the new Czech film Before PassExamination. It was made by the A-B-Film, Ltd., Prague; the author of the story was Vladislav Vancura, a prominent Czech writer who was also active as an artistic collaborator when the film was in the making. The scenario was the result of a collective work of several collaborators under the guidance of Josef Neuberg and the film was directed by Svatopluk Inneman. Before Pass-Examination has, on the whole, signs of optimism, joy of life and positive results. Only in passages tending to the suicidal intention of Kafka and in places depicting professor Klec's emotional breakdown, does it become serious, even tragic.