What is "close up"

vb. 1 To move people closer together. 2 To shut a building or a business for a period of time. 3 To heal a cut or other wound

1. adv. very close; "without my reading glasses I can hardly see things close up"; "even firing at close range he missed" [syn: at close range]

2. v. block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block] [ant: free]

3. refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent; "The children shut up when their father approached" [syn: clam up, dummy up, shut up, belt up, button up, be quiet, keep mum] [ant: open up]

A close-up is tightly framed image of a person or an object.

Close-Up or Close Up may refer to:

Close Up was a half-hour-long New Zealand current affairs programme produced by Television New Zealand. The programme aired at 7 pm weeknights (straight after One News) on TV ONE and was presented by Mark Sainsbury with Mike Hosking as the back-up supporting host. The last edition was broadcast on 30 November 2012. Seven Sharp, a current affairs show aimed at a younger audience, took its place in 2013.

The show was the country's most watched night news and current affairs show.

The new Close Up began broadcasting on 2 November 2004 as a replacement for the Holmes show immediately after Paul Holmes announced his resignation from TVNZ and that he would be presenting a similar show on Prime in 2005. The show was originally branded as Close Up at 7 using the existing Holmes studio but when the show relaunched in 2005 it was just branded as Close Up with a new-look studio.

Close Up was hosted by Susan Wood from its first show in 2004 until 4 December 2006, when she resigned from TVNZ, citing health problems.

Close Up competed with the TV3 current affairs show Campbell Live, and shared the same time slot with TV2 drama Shortland Street.

Close Up is a 1996 American crime drama film and is also Will Arnett's film debut.

Close Up is Joey's eleventh Cantonese studio album. The album will include Joey's newest #1 single/plug, 華麗邂逅 (Unexpected Splendid Meeting). This is also the first time Joey co-produced some of her songs on an album, under the name JY. Close Up is Joey's most successful album in terms of chart performance, with three 4 station #1 plugs, and two songs that placed within CRHK's Top Ten Songs of the Year, 華麗邂逅 in 2006 and 愛一個上一課 in 2007.

Close Up was an influential literary magazine devoted to film, published by the Pool Group between 1927 and 1933. "It was the brain child of Kenneth Macpherson, a young man of independent means, not a little talent, and quite a lot of personal charm". The monthly magazine, founded at the group's 'headquarters' in Territet, Switzerland would be dedicated to "independent cinema and cinema from around the world". The first issue of Close Up, describing itself on the front cover as an "international magazine devoted to film art", appeared in July, 1927. Macpherson was editor-in-chief, with Bryher as assistant editor, and Hilda Doolittle ("H.D.") and Oswell Blakeston making regular contributions.

The publication was truly international with correspondents reporting on productions worldwide, with major literary and cinematic figures contributing articles on the latest film theory ( René Crevel, Dorothy Richardson, Sergei Eisenstein, Hans Sachs, Harry Potamkin) and advertising revenue coming from Paris, Berlin, and New York.

Macpherson "dictated the tone and direction of the publication, contributing articles that defined the role of the director and defended the integrity of cinema and its right to be considered as art". Close Up would discard the vulgar entertainment films coming out of Britain and Hollywood, preferring the avant-garde productions from Germany and the Soviet Union. Blakeston, the most prolific of the magazine's writers, would mock British lack of imagination and general ineptitude. Editorial offices opened in 1928 at 24 Devonshire Street, and from April 1930 at 25 Litchfield Street, off Charing Cross Road, London, above Anton Zwemmer's bookshop and gallery.

The Academy cinema at 165 Oxford Street, which was dedicated to showing Continental and 'Unusual' art-house films, frequently advertised in its pages.

The magazine reduced its publication frequency from monthly to quarterly, eventually fizzling out in 1933 when Macpherson departed. A printed slip was attached to the flyleaf of the final December issue, requesting that in future all letters and orders should be addressed to Mr. A. Zwemmer, 87 Charing Cross Road.

Close Up is the second and final studio album by English punk band The Outsiders, which would later evolve into The Sound. It was released in 1978 by record label Raw Edge.