A very old machine : the many origins of the cinema in India /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | SUNY series, horizons of cinema.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.