Close Up (Oct 1920 - Aug 1923)

Page scan 000240 from Close Up

Record Details:

Title:
Close Up
Date:
Oct 1920 - Aug 1923
Volume:
Close-Up (1920-1923)
Leaf #:
000240
Language:
English
Collection:
Switzerland, Early Cinema, and Global Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
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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HENRY J. HEBERT ONE OF FILMDOM’S GREATEST “BAD MEN” The integrity of a Magazine is as vital to its existence as in the case of the Individual. And so it becomes the duty of this publication to reprint the Photograph and Billing of Mr. Henry J. Hebert, only this time we are spelling correctly the name of this sterling Actor of the Screen. In the last issue his name was unfortunately misspelled, and having a Conscience Close-up believes in losing for the time being, in the reward, and added respect that it is bound to receive afterwards. So again we emphasize that in acquiring the histrionic services of Mr. Hebert the producer satisfies himself that he has secured the best Talent, and the Public who know Mr. Hebert will content itself with the knowledge that the producer is trying to please the Thinkers in the average audience.