A very old machine: the many origins of the cinema in India, 1840-1930 Sudhir Mahadevan.
Series: SUNY series, Horizons of cinemaPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2015]Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781438458298 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9781438458304 (ebook)Subject(s): Motion pictures -- India -- History | Motion picture industry -- India -- HistoryDDC classification: 791.430954 LOC classification: PN1993.5.I8 | M326 2015| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Obsolescence -- The nineteenth century Indian techno-bazaar -- Traveling showmen, makeshift cinemas: the Bioscopewallah and early cinema -- Part 2. mechanical reproduction and mass culture -- copyright and cultural authenticity: The politics of mechanical reproduction in South Asia -- The cinema as mass culture: the melodramas of mechanical reproduction -- Part 3. Intermediality -- The emergence of topicality: snapshot cultures and newspaper photojournalism -- Politics across media: the partition of Bengal (1905) and the cinematic city -- Part 4. Archives -- The abundant ephemeral: the protocols of popular film historiography in India -- Conclusion.
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