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 #:
000125
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Switzerland, Global Cinema, 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:
June 20, 2024
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CLOSE UP 113 Half consciously, half unconsciously, in a wild inward panic, he overturns the boat. The girl is drowned. Leaving her to her fate, Clyde makes his escape in the way he had planned beforehand, and is caught in the meshes of the net which he himself had woven. The affair with the boat takes places as similar incidents take place; it is not sharply defined and complete ; it is like a tangled skein. And Dreiser presents the incident quite impartially, leaving the further course of events to be shaped by the logical evolution not of the subject but ... of the course of the law. We had to emphasize Clyde's ACTUAL and TECHNICAL innocence in connexion with the actual perpetration of the crime. Only by this means could we make sufficiently plain the " monstrous challenge " to a society whose mechanism brings a rather characterless youth into such a situation and then, invoking morality and justice, seats him in the electric chair. The sanctity of the FORMAL principle in the codes of honour, morality, justice and religion is regarded in America as something primary and fundamental. On this principle is based the endless game of advocacy in the courts and the matching of lawyers and parliamentarians one against the other. The " The First Right o f Children " {From the Diary of a Woman-doctor), a DeutschesLichtspiel-Syndikat Film. " Le premier droit de Venfant " (tire du Journal d,une docloresse) un film Deittsches-Lichtspiel-Syndikat.