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 #:
000182
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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170 CLOSE UP were able to turn out a film that struck the American (and German-American) fancy. Superfilm AG. in Berlin sent over a little Viennese screen operetta, the first of its kind to be shown in America.* Zwei Herzen Im Dreiviertel Takt ran for fifty weeks at the little Europa Theatre in New York, where it established an all-time record for American as well as foreign talking pictures, m in the United States. The press was no less enthusiastic than the public which flocked to the tiny theatre for almost a year to see and hear the film which " brought back the Viennese waltz." (The American critics even went so far to sav that it surpassed anything America had done in the field of the musical film or screen operetta, " triumphing easily over the much-vaunted Monte Carlo " — John S. Cohen, Jr., New York Sun.) * An earlier German musical film, Dich Hab'Ich Geliebt, had played to a record run of six weeks at the Belmont Theatre in New York, where it was most enthusiastically received. This film, it may be said, paved the way, not only for the German language film in America, but also for the foreign language film in general. Special photograph {not appearing in the film) of Mae West, star of " She Done Him Wrong ! " Photo : Paramount . Photo Speciale (pas dans le film) de Mae West, vedette de " She Done Him Wrong ! " Photo : Paramount .