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 #:
00058
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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50 CLOSE UP The first Yiddish film by Shpiss, " The Return of Nathan Becker." " he retour de Nathan Becker" premier film Yiddish de Shpiss. Der erste jiddische Film von Shpiss, " Die Riickkehr des Nathan Becker." PUBLISHED SCENARIOS This is not to argue the aesthetic toss : it is merely in a practical way to discuss the publication of scenarios : of films made, or to be made. Personally, and one can't do better than that, I should love a copy of the script of Jeanne Key, and to be able to recreate at anv time my impressions of that film, to take an example. It will not be long before scenarios are regularly published : now the idea is a little strange, as was the idea of publishing stage plays in Elizabethan times. No one then thought they would stand up on their own without the traffic of the boards. It will be all to the advantage of the original writer : the pioneer will be able to get a hearing — a printed book carrying more weight than a tvped MS. — especially if the critics, film and literary, give him a show. The book sales would guarantee some return even if the script was never purchased for production. Also it would be a convenience for the studios to be able to purchase readv made scenarios, and a good press might encourage them