close-up
CLOSE-UP is an innovative and accessible annual series devoted to the close analysis of film and television. Each volume contains three extended individual studies linked by a concern to explore in detail the decisions that go into the making of films or television programmes.
These choices – from setting and performance to camera position and movement, from lighting and colour to editing and the multiple possibilities of sound – create a film’s form and determine its meanings. It is this rich texture that engages us as spectators but has often been overlooked in film theory and criticism. Each study in the series roots its argument in particular choices made by filmmakers, providing sustained analysis of sequences and moments and engaging with wider issues in the field from this firm basis in textual detail.
Close-Up is dedicated to the fundamentals of film and television – the images and sounds themselves – and to a film analysis that builds upwards from these foundations. John Gibbs and Douglas Pye outline their mission in their introduction to the series, which you can read here. For an exploration of the Close-Up method, we recommend Deborah Allison's incisive review in Senses of Cinema.
Below are details of the first three volumes in this annual series. Volumes for down the line already include studies on such consistently diverse subjects as Digital Cinema, Intimacy and Cinema, Modern Ghost Melodramas, Reading Cary Grant, Revisiting the Avant-gardes etc etc.
CLOSE-UP 03
The Police Series / Men's Cinema / Weimar Cinema
John Gibbs and Douglas Pye (eds)| 978-1-905674-77-0 (pbk) | £18.99 |
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| 978-1-905674-78-7 (hbk) | £50.00 |
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CLOSE-UP 02
Movies and Tone / Reading Rohmer / Voices in Film
John Gibbs and Douglas Pye (eds)| 978-1-905674-06-0 (pbk) | £18.99 |
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| 978-1-905674-07-7 (hbk) | £50.00 |
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CLOSE-UP 01
Filmmakers' Choices / The Pop Song in Film / Reading Buffy
John Gibbs and Douglas Pye (eds)| 978-1-904764-57-1 (pbk) | £18.99 |
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| 978-1-904764-66-3 (hbk) | £50.00 |
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