| Comment: The first editorial of the review Close up. McPherson expresses the internationalist and experimental spirit of the review. .Cinema always had for Bryher, Macpherson and H.D. an international and transnational dimension: it was an inter-racial peace conference and the universal language of all nations. Nonetheless, we should not confuse this idea of cinema as a universal language with the ingenuous and dangerous conviction of the existance of universal languages and universal meanings, in which no differences can be affirmed. On the contrary, Close Up’s collaborators were fascinated by the idea of cinema as a place for trans-national and multilinguistic writing, in that cinema enabled them to approach differences (different cultures, different countries and later on different languages). They were fascinated by the idea of cinema as a cultural and linguistic koinè , an intercultural translation among motives, stylistic codes, stories and people. |