A very old machine
Subtitle: the many origins of the cinema in India, 1840-1930
By: Sudhir Mahadevan
Series: SUNY series, Horizons of cinema
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781438458298; 9781438458304
Subjects: Motion pictures; History; Motion picture industry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Obsolescence; title: The nineteenth century Indian techno-bazaar; title: Traveling showmen, makeshift cinemas: the Bioscopewallah and early cinema; title: Part 2. mechanical reproduction and mass culture; title: copyright and cultural authenticity: The politics of mechanical reproduction in South Asia; title: The cinema as mass culture: the melodramas of mechanical reproduction; title: Part 3. Intermediality; title: The emergence of topicality: snapshot cultures and newspaper photojournalism; title: Politics across media: the partition of Bengal (1905) and the cinematic city; title: Part 4. Archives; title: The abundant ephemeral: the protocols of popular film historiography in India; title: Conclusion.