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 #:
000137
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:
June 20, 2024
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CLOSE UP 125 From Hackenschmied's rhythmic and architectonic sound-film study, " Prague Castle," produced by Ladislav Kolda. Photo du film : " Chateau de Prague," etude sonore de rythme et d' architecture de Hackenschmied. Production Ladislav Kolda. "PRAGUE CASTLE" AND OTHER CZECH SHORTS Recently in Prague three interesting shorts have been produced : — Prague Castle, Burlesque and Construction . They belong among those fewexperimental films made in Czechoslovakia which endeavour to find new ways and methods of artistic cinema expression. Prague Castle was made by Alexander Hackenschmied and is an attempt at formal cohesion of music and film image. The music and images of this film rise simultaneously as equal components of the whole. When composing the movement and inner content of the images, special attention was paid to the tones determined to accompany them, while, on the other hand, music was composed with regard to the resulting effect when accompanied by the images. The theme of this film is in the mixture of architectonic styles of all times as they are to be found in Prague Castle. The alternation of these styles, as well as the contrast in their shape and expression, condition the dynamics of this picture and determine the musical motives, not emotionally but formally. The value of this film lies therefore not only in its pictorial and musical composition but chiefly in their inter-connection. A. Hackenschmied in collaboration with the author of the musical score, Frantisek