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 #:
00018
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:
November 07, 2023
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10 CLOSE UP Kuzmina of " New Babylon " and " Alone," who plays the leading part in Barnet's new film," Outskirts." L'acteur Kuzmina, connu par ses precedents roles dans " Nouvel/e Baby lone " et " Seul," est Vinterprere principal du nouveau film de Barnet : " Outskirts " (Frontieres). Kuzmina aus " Neu Babylon " und " Einsamkeit," stellt die Hauptrolle in Barnets neuem Film " Peripherie dur." yield any fruit. And a tempestuous stream of creative energy uncontrolled by method will yield still less. Detailed analysis of the structure of compositions stage by stage reveals the most rigid conformity to a law arising out of the basic social and ideological underlying premises and governing every ramification of the work . And the golden fever of commercial activity and money-making which marks the epoch of Louis-Philippe is also a leading factor in the golden legend of the fabulously wealthy ex-sailor, now an all-powerful count — a no less important factor than Dumas's childish recollections of Scheherezade and the treasures of Ali Baba. And the very fact that a sailor might become a count meant that " anyone " might become a count. In an age when the pursuit of riches and aristocratic titles was general, the sailor, Dantes, become the fabulously wealthy Monte-Cristo, served as an excellent " social ideal " for the bourgeoisie, who were enriching themselves at a feverish rate.