Close Up 1927-1933: Cinema and Modernism

by James Donald

Book Overview

Close Up was the first English-language journal of film theory. Published between 1927 and 1933, it billed itself as the only magazine devoted to film as an art, promising readers theory and analysis: no gossip. The journal was edited by the writer and filmmaker Kenneth Macpherson, the novelist Winifred Bryher, and the poet H. D., and it attracted contributions from such major figures as Dorothy Richardson, Sergei Eisenstein, and Man Ray...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691004633
• ISBN13: 9780691004631
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"