A very old machine the many origins of the cinema in India / Sudhir Mahadevan.
| Author/creator | Mahadevan, Sudhir, 1973- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Albany : SUNY Press, [2015] |
| Description | xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | SUNY 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014045586 |
| ISBN | 9781438458298 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781438458304 (e-book) |