Close Up (Mar-Dec 1932)

Page scan 000255 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 #:
000255
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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CLOSE UP 237 A scene from the Czech film " The Organist From St. Guy's," directed by Mac Fric. The style of the decor suggests the German expressionistic school. Karel Hosier played the leading role. Une scene du film tcheque : " L'organiste de St. Guy" dirige par Mac Fric. Le style decoratif suggere I'ecole expressionniste allemande. hiterptete principal : Karel Hasler. Eine Szene aus dem tschechischen Film " Der Organist von St. Veit." Regie : Mac Fric. Der Stil der Dekoration erinnert an den deutschen Expressionismus. Karel Hasler spielte die Hauptrolle. THE EVENTS OF CZECH FILM The Czech lihii abroad is not enough known. It failed to penetrate beyond the borders of the state even in the times of silent pictures and with the coming of talkies its position \\as still more difficult because of the Czech language barrier. We must confess that Czechoslovakia is not a promised land of film and — b}' the way — we remember Louis Delluc who used to sav the same thing of France. Most of all, there is missing one preconception necessary to the prosperity of film art and that preconception we do not need in quantity of production or in technical inventions but in quality. For even small countries — Sweden for example — were able to establish for a time a very high level of film production. In spite of the