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 #:
000134
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:
June 20, 2024
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122 CLOSE UP quick movement, or slow movement, emphasizing the difference in the rhythms of this one and that and, at the same time, contrasting the almost complete absence of outward action with the feverish inward debates — behind the stony mask of the face. How fascinating to listen to one's own train of thought, particularly in a state »f excitement. To discover how one talks " inside oneself," as distinct from outwardly. To study the syntax of the internal as opposed to the external speech. To discover what quavering internal speech accompanies the simultaneous visual image. How the} contrast with outward circumstances. How they react upon one another. . . To listen and study with a view to grasping structural laws and combining them for the purpose of composing an internal monologue expressing with the utmost possible intensity the conflict of tragic experience. How fascinating. And what scope for creative invention and observation. Schulze Versus Everyone," a new Carl Froelich Verleiher-Kollektiv film. Ida Wiirst and Lilli Schonbaitm. " Schulze contre tons," nouveau film Verleiher-kollektiv de Carl Froelich. Ida Wiirst et Lilli Schonbaitm.