ID: 8988  -  Francesca De Ruggieri  -  Bari
Type: Text
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Medium: ArticleExtent: 4 pp
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Title: What shall you do in the war?Subtitle:
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Role: AuthorName: Bryher (Winifred Ellerman)
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Date: Issuedin/on: 1933
Language: English
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Relation: IsPartOfQualifier: Close Up, X, 2, 1933
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Place: Time: 1933
Description: Bryher's last contribution to the review Close Up
Subjects: Internationalism/Transnationalism
Subjects: War
Subjects: Wo/Men
Subjects: Places
Subjects: Places
Subjects: Displacement
Subjects: Displacement
Keywords: pacificism
Keywords: Bryher (Winifred Ellerman)
Keywords: Berlin
Keywords: London
Keywords: refugees
Keywords: travellers
Query Subject+Keyword: (War, pacificism)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Bryher (Winifred Ellerman))
Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, Berlin)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, London)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Displacement, refugees)
Query Subject+Keyword: (Displacement, travellers)
Comment: Bryher's last contribution in the final issue of the review Close Up in 1933 is What shall you do in the war? (in Close Up, X, 2, 1933, pp. 188-192), in which her insouciant gaze perceives the signs of the coming conflict. However, this article does not represent only Bryher’s (and the review’s) political commitment, but brings with it the germs of the imminent end of the publication. After December 1933 the editorial staff ended their commitment, some even left cinema altogether. If the advent of talkies - due to economic requirements, rather than aesthetic experimentation - had weakened the passion with which the editorial staff wrote about cinema as a transnational art and as a universal language and as a consequence had led to the end of the Close Up experience, Fascism and then the Second World War brought the definitive end of the publication. Both because crucial figures like Bryher decided on anti-fascist political commitment and on other editorial or intellectual projects (f