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 #:
000373
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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CLOSE UP 349 The Kinkaku Temple in Kyoto, photographed for the production of " Japan in Four Seasons," but not included in the final print of the film. Le temple Kinkaku a. Kyoto photographie pour la production: " he Japon en quatre saisnns," mais ecartee lors du tirage definitif du film. Once the value and possibilities of this advancement are fully appreciated the screen will enter a period of development corresponding in evolutional range to that which followed upon the rudimentary cineograph with the introduction ot photodrama. Directly ahead lies the rich field of opera. Even as the cinema has brought the theatre to the screen, with enhanced versatility, beauty, and verisimilitude, so likewise may it translate the opera, not only with an increase of picturesqueness, but also with amplifying radiophonic ingenuities and facilities heretofore undreamed of. For coincidentally with the improvement in the scoring of pictures, radio scientific research has been busy in the field of orchestral reproduction, and the results already attained point to a new era in the technique of musical rendition and interpretation. Leopold Stokowski, director of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, is in large measure responsible for these results. They represent two years of work in collaboration with the engineers of the Bell Telephone Company and of the Radio Corporation of America, and recently in Philadelphia a first public demonstration of them was given for the National Academy of Sciences.