03611nam 2200601 450 991046036210332120200520144314.01-4384-5830-4(CKB)3710000000486245(EBL)4396587(SSID)ssj0001556415(PQKBManifestationID)16178108(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001556415(PQKBWorkID)13979099(PQKB)11559849(MiAaPQ)EBC4396587(Au-PeEL)EBL4396587(CaPaEBR)ebr11155592(OCoLC)941695516(EXLCZ)99371000000048624520160303h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA very old machine the many origins of the cinema in India /Sudhir MahadevanAlbany, New York :SUNY Press,2015.©20151 online resource (258 p.)SUNY series, Horizons of CinemaDescription based upon print version of record.1-4384-5829-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ModernityPart 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: Intermediality5 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; Black Sheep (1953); 6 Politics across Media: The Partition of Bengal (1905) and the Cinematic City; Cinema and Urban Space: From Imperial Ritual to Nationalist Politics; Cinema and the Standardization of Time; The Emblematic and the Tidal Crowd; Facing the Crowd; Conclusion; Part IV: Archives7 The Abundant Ephemeral: The Protocols of Popular Film Historiography in IndiaCinema Cinema (1979); Film Hi Film (1983); 8. Postscript; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; IndexSUNY series, horizons of cinema.Motion picturesIndiaHistoryMotion picture industryIndiaHistoryElectronic books.Motion picturesHistory.Motion picture industryHistory.791.430954Mahadevan Sudhir1973-1050337MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460362103321A very old machine2480033UNINA