Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

Page scan 000336 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 #:
000336
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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312 CLOSE UP " As God is One My Word is One," a Turkish operetta by Ertogroul Mushin. " Dieu est un etje n'ai qu'une Parole " operette turque d' Ertogroul Mushin. activity of American missionaries and is developing a new system which has potentially the same raw film material as Soviet Russia. Moreover the Turks take to acting, the women too, in spite of their recent appearance into the world of activity, like ducks to water, and there is already in Istanbul a thoroughly equipped studio. This studio, the first in Turkey, was completed a year ago under the auspices of nine brothers, the Ipekcis who have now formed the Ipek Film Company. For years these brothers managed the best cinemas in Turkey, true with a greater instinct to commerce than to art, but, what they lack in artistic appreciation they certainly make up in business acumen. They employ a German sound technician and have installed as their one and only regisseur, Ertogroul Muhsin who studied cinema in Paris, Berlin and Moscow. Muhsin's first film for Ipek was an interesting though imperfect effort at a 100% national film. In character and object A Nation Awakes is the Turkish equivalent to Eisenstein's Ten Days, a synthesis between the documentary and the art film, its subject being Moushtafa Kemal Pasha's overthrow of the Sultan and the evacuation of the AUied Armies. It is a national epic and as such it has dramatic meaning even when it is filmically insignificant.