A very old machine : the many origins of the cinema in India / / Sudhir Mahadevan
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| Autore: |
Mahadevan Sudhir <1973->
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| Titolo: |
A very old machine : the many origins of the cinema in India / / Sudhir Mahadevan
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.430954 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures - India - History |
| Motion picture industry - India - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; 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 | |
| 7 The Abundant Ephemeral: The Protocols of Popular Film Historiography in IndiaCinema Cinema (1979); Film Hi Film (1983); 8. Postscript; Notes; Works Cited; Filmography; Index | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A very old machine |
| ISBN: | 1-4384-5830-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460362103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY series, horizons of cinema.