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PREFACE
Anne Friedberg in the United States were independently planning anthologies, the
pooling of resources and ideas, mostly through the media of fax and e-mail, proved - for
us at least - both pleasurable and productive. We would like to thank a number of friends
and colleagues for their comments, suggestions and support, especially Kevin Brownlow,
Ian Christie, Miriam Hansen, Laura Mulvey, Michael OTray and Jim Pines. Jane
Greenwood at Cassell and Deborah Malmud at Princeton have been enthusiastic and (as
far as can be reasonably expected) patient editors; we must also thank Sandra Margolies,
our Cassell house editor. Above all, we should acknowledge the generous encouragement
given to research in this field by H.D.'s daughter, Perdita Schaeffner.
We respectfully dedicate the book to her.
September 1997
James Donald
Anne Friedberg
Laura Marcus
Note on the treatment of texts
The production of Close Up is a great testament to the enthusiasm, energy and efficiency
of its editors, Bryher in particular, although style and presentation at times appear
idiosyncratic to the late-twentieth-century eye. We have reproduced original spelling and
punctuation, despite inconsistencies, but have corrected obvious typographical errors.
Punctuation has been left as it stands, unless it makes sentences difficult to read and
interpret. We have added modern or more familiar spellings of well-known figures in
square brackets (e.g. Tudowkin [Pudovkin]'). The only consistent changes we have made
are in design points, such as the removing of extraneous spaces around marks, and we
have used single quotation marks for ease of reading.