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Mahadevan Sudhir <1973-> |
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A very old machine : the many origins of the cinema in India / / Sudhir Mahadevan |
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Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema |
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Motion pictures - India - History |
Motion picture industry - India - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Argument; Imaginaries; The Structure of the Book; Part I: Obsolescence; 1. The Nineteenth-Century Indian Techno-Bazaar; From Novelty to Apparatus: Photography's Material Cultures; Formal Expertise and Informal Know-How; Proto-Global Influences: The Scalar and Spatial Logic of Empire; Conclusion; 2 Traveling Showmen, Makeshift Cinemas: The Bioscopewallah and Early Cinema; Phantasmagoria Shows; Lantern Slides, Kinetoscopes, and Junk Films; Mobile cinema and Visual Education; A Recycled Modernity |
Part II: Mechanical Reproduction and Mass Culture3 Copyright and Cultural Authenticity: The Politics of Mechanical Reproduction in South Asia; Introduction; Empire and the Impossibility of Originality; From Genius to Genus; Turning the Tables: The Nationality of the Image; Cultural Patrimony Meets "Popular" Culture; 4 The Cinema as Mass Culture: The Melodramas of Mechanical Reproduction; Phalke the Craftsman; The Craftsman in the Meshes of Pirate Networks; Cinema as Mass Culture in Postcolonial India; Postscripts: Reminiscing the Age of Prints; Part III: Intermediality |
5 The Emergence of Topicality: Snapshot Cultures and Newspaper PhotojournalismBicycle Photography; The Ethnographic and the Picturesque Image; Photo-Illustrations and Film; Mimesis or Exemplarity? Crime Films and Photographs and the Legacy of Topicality; |
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