Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

Page scan 000270 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Mar-Dec 1933
Publisher:
[London, etc., Pool]
Volume:
Close up ... devoted to the art of films
Leaf #:
000270
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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252 CLOSE UP "Suburbia," B. Barnet. The beginning of hatred between life long friends when War is declared. The German and Russian Cronies. " Le Ban lieu," B. Barnet. Declaration de la guerre. L' Allemand et le Russe trouvent la haine au lieu de Vamitie. sickening wreck, which brazenly flies Eisenstein's name on its masthead, Experimental Cinema, together with innumerable other film groups throughout the world, will wage relentless and unceasing propaganda, until the entire world shall recognize Thunder Over Mexico for what it is, — a patched-up interpretation of the original scenario, without meaning, form or rhythm, and without the faintest semblance to anything recognizable as an Eisenstein film. WE CONDEMN " THUNDER OVER MEXICO " AS A FRAUD ! WE CONDEMN UPTON SINCLAIR AND HIS FRIENDS FOR THEIR OBTUSENESS, FOR THEIR INSENSITIVENESS TO EISENSTEIN'S UNIQUE GENIUS, AND FOR HOLDING THEIR INVESTMENT IN HIGHER ESTEEM THAN THEY HOLD THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREATEST WORK OF ART DONE ON THE AMERICAN CONTINENT ! WE CALL UPON THE ENTIRE EUROPEAN FILM-WORLD TO PROTEST IN THE MOST DECISIVE MANNER AGAINST THE RELEASE OF THE SOL LESSER MISINTERPRETATION OF EISENSTEIN'S MEXICAN VISION ! WE CALL UPON ART-LOVERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD TO DENOUNCE " THUNDER OVER MEXICO " AS REPRESENTING THE MOMENTARY TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN MONEY OVER EVERYTHING