Sure enough, many of the war's controversies, from the close ups of the bodies of two British soldiers to the bombing of the Hotel Palestine, revolved around the station.
However that impact is gauged, it has very much emerged from the close-up view of reconstruction in Iraq.
In contrast, Wrecking Ball moves straight from the close-up of Cyrus to scenes of her gyrating in a crop top and knickers, fellating an axe and writhing naked on a ball.
An obvious satirical impulse — the Cowboys' relentless merchandising operation leads Billy to wonder at what point "America became a giant mall with a country attached" — does not detract from the close-up drama of the day.
A film-set moment jokily referred to by Windsor on stage - the diffi culty of redubbing the word "buttocks" as "bottom" for the censor - benefits from the close-up to become a smart visual gag.
The choice of the vibraphone's pristine ping is telling; "Time to Die" shifts the Dodos from the close-up, stubble-and-all production of their 2008 album, "Visiter," to the more refined approach of Phil Ek, who has worked with Fleet Foxes and the Shins.
A typically singular and uncompromising vision from Myerson, Me and the Fat Man is written entirely from the close-up, skewed point of view of its heroine, Amy, who is motherless, unhappily married, and gets paid to give blow-jobs in her local park.
Yet it has a dazzling quality that I have come to associate solely with the new generation of animators and FX stylists, a fleetness and lightness in the way it switches from the close-up on a deft little sight gag or a sweet character observation, sweeping out for a breathtaking panorama of an extraterrestrial landscape imagined with passionate detail and specificity.
Yet these are minor complaints about a film that often dazzles during its quietest moments, as when Max sets sail, and you intuit his pluck and will from the close-ups of him staring into the unknown.
More from the Close-Up series.
From the close-up of the measured result shown in Figure 2f, the rise timer, defined as the time needed for the photocurrent to increase from 10%% ipeak to 90%% ipeak, is 137 μs and the decay timed, defined analogously, is 379 μs.
