A very old machine the many origins of the cinema in India / Sudhir Mahadevan.

Author/creator Mahadevan, Sudhir, 1973-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAlbany : SUNY Press, [2015]
Descriptionxiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesSUNY series, Horizons of cinema
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014045586
ISBN9781438458298 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781438458304 (e-book)