LEADER 03611nam 2200601 450 001 9910460362103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4384-5830-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000486245 035 $a(EBL)4396587 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001556415 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16178108 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001556415 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13979099 035 $a(PQKB)11559849 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4396587 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4396587 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11155592 035 $a(OCoLC)941695516 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000486245 100 $a20160303h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA very old machine $ethe many origins of the cinema in India /$fSudhir Mahadevan 210 1$aAlbany, New York :$cSUNY Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series, Horizons of Cinema 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4384-5829-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aPart 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 327 $a5 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: Archives 327 $a7 The Abundant Ephemeral: The Protocols of Popular Film Historiography in IndiaCinema Cinema (1979); Film Hi Film (1983); 8. Postscript; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Index 410 0$aSUNY series, horizons of cinema. 606 $aMotion pictures$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aMotion picture industry$zIndia$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 615 0$aMotion picture industry$xHistory. 676 $a791.430954 700 $aMahadevan$b Sudhir$f1973-$01050337 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460362103321 996 $aA very old machine$92480033 997 $aUNINA