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 #:
000272
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:
November 07, 2023
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254 CLOSE LP Cinema Quarterly (Scotland) Moscow Daily News ; Close Up ; etc., etc. For further information as to research data, communicate with Experimental Cinema, 1625 N. Vine Street, Hollywood, Calif., U.S.A. Seymour Stern. THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS UNANIMOUSLY PASSED AT A MEETING OF THE WORKERS' FILM AND PHOTO LEAGUE, AT 312 E. WATSON STREET, DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ON MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1933 : WHEREAS a Hollywood movie by the name of Thunder Over Mexico, with the approval of Upton Sinclair, one of the chief financial backers of this film, is being exploited as the work of S. M. Eisenstein, and, WHEREAS this film was not cut by Eisenstein and consequently does not represent his determination of the relationship between the shots originally taken by him and A. Tisse, his camera man, and, WHEREAS Thunder Over Mexico, being merely a falsified fragment of the footage taken for Que Viva Mexico by Eisenstein and Tisse, has nothing in common with the original intention of Eisenstein and G. V. Alexandrov, who collaborated upon the preparation of the original scenario for Que Viva Mexico, and, WHEREAS Thunder Over Mexico is an illegitimate version of Que Viva Mexico that does a disservice to the conceptions of Eisenstein, Alexandrov and Tisse, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Workers' Film and Photo League of Detroit to (I) denounce Thunder Over Mexico as a commercial vulgarization of Que Viva Mexico, (2) urge branches of the Workers' Film and Photo League, film societies and friends of the cinema in America (Mexico, Cuba, Canada, and the United States) and Europe to wage relentless propaganda against Thunder Over Mexico as a symbol of the criminal destruction of creative effort, (3) demand of Upton Sinclair and his co-backers that this film be withdrawn and that the complete negative, cut and uncut, of Que Viva Mexico be saved for Eisenstein, and (4) that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Upton Sinclair for his immediate attention. THE WORKERS' FILM AND PHOTO LEAGUE, DETROIT. Jack Auringer, Secretary. 4246 Waverly St., Detroit.