TY - BOOK AU - Mahadevan,Sudhir TI - A very old machine: the many origins of the cinema in India, 1840-1930 T2 - SUNY series, Horizons of cinema SN - 9781438458304 AV - PN1993.5.I8 M326 2015eb U1 - 791.430954 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Motion pictures KW - India KW - History KW - Motion picture industry KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Reference KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Obsolescence -- 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1079064 ER -