Close Up (Mar-Dec 1932)

Page scan 000339 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 #:
000339
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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Contents of Vol. IX PAGE American Tendencies. Clifford Howaid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 As Is. Kenneth Macpherson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 At the Boundary of Film and Theatre. Zygmunt Tonecki . . . . . . . . 31 Blue Light, The. Trude Weiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Book Teaches the Way to See Films, A. A. Kraszna-Krausz . . . . . . . . 124 Boys Without Uniform. Karel Santar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 Continuous Performance. Dorothy Richardson . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Datum Point. Dan Birt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Detective Work in the Gik. S. M. Eisenstein . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 DiSAPPEAKiNG World. Karel Santar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Dog Days in the Movies. H. A. Potamkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268 Elizabeth Befgner Again. Trude Weiss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Enthusiasm ? Robert Herring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Events of Czech Film. Svatopluk Jezek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Experimental Film and its Limitations, The. John C. Moore . . . . . . . . 281 Experiment of Chesterfield, The. Robert Herring . . . . . . . . . . 161 Facts for Finance. Oswell Blakeston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Film Costumier's Problems, The. Max Pretzfelder . . . . . . . . . . 275 Film Criticism in Japan'. Y. Ogino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 First Opera-Film, The. Trude Weiss . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . 242 Four Films from Germany. A. Kraszna-Krausz . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 German Film Season, 1932-3. A. Kraszna-Krausz . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Hollywood in Fact. Clifford Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 International Exhibition of Photography (Brussels). Trude Weiss . . . . . . 188 Jabberwocky. Clifford Howard . . . . . . .... . . . . . . 55 Kitsch. Dr. Hanns Sachs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Manifesto (Back to Primitives). Blakeston and Macpherson . . . . . . . . 92 Mining Film, A. Erno Metzner . . . . . . . . .... . . . . 3 Music for Harlequin, The. Eric Walter White . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Night-Prowl in la Mancha, A. Kenneth Macpherson . . . . . . . . . . 225 Notes from America. Herman Weinberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Notes on Some Films. Bryher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 196 On the Sets of the Film Atlantis. Erno Metzner . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Pabst-Dovjenko, a Comparison. John C. Moore . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Paris News. Jean Lenauer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262 Paul Green in Hollywood. Frank Daugherty . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Plots in our Time. Oswell Blakeston & Roger Burfcrd . . . . . . . . . . 257 Prospective Perspective. Oswell Blakeston .. .. .. .. .. .. ..117 Sword of Death, The. Robert Herring .. .. .. .. .. .. . . 115 Two Films and One Star. Robert Herring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 Vertov ad Absurdam. J. Pennethorne-Hughes . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Vienna of the Films. Klara Modern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 West and East of the Atlantic. Bryher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Young Workers Film Their Own Life. Klara Modern . . . . . . . . . . 53