Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1933
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
00017
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:
November 07, 2023
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CLOSE UP 9 From a new comedy by Barnet — who made the well-known " Girl with a Hat-Box " — entitled " Outskirts." Barnet himself appears on left as a peasant. Cliche d'une nouvelle comedie de Barnet intitulee " Outskirts." Barnet y figure, a gauche, sous les traits d'un pay son. II est Vauteur de la tres connue : " Fille an carton a chapeaux." Aus einer neuen Komddie, betitelt " Peripherie," von Barnet, dem Schopfer des zvohlbekannten " Mddchen mit der Hutschachtel." Barnet selbst ist links als Bauer zu sehen. Count "of Monte-Cristo ' is to be no longer a volume of romantic travel impressions, but a novel pure and simple. " The Abbe Faria, a lunatic born at Goa, whom Chateaubriand saw trying vainly to kill a canary by hypnotizing it, helped to reinforce the element of mystery, and on the horizon began to loom the outlines of the Chateau d'lf and the dungeons of Edmond Dantes and the aged Faria . . ."' That is how works are actually constructed. And to realize how it is done and actually participate in the process seems to> me most advantageous and instructive for students. The element of chance is far less important in this connexion than might appear, and the element of law within the creative process becomes palpably perceptible. There must be method, but a pre-conceived methodological plan will not