Mahadevan A Very Old Machine

The Many Origins of the Cinema in India
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5830-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Argues that Indian cinema’s deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahadevan, Sudhir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: Obsolescence

1. The Nineteenth-Century Indian Techno-Bazaar

2. Traveling Showmen, Makeshift Cinemas: The Bioscopewallah and Early Cinema

Part II: Mechanical Reproduction and Mass Culture

3. Copyright and Cultural Authenticity: The Politics of Mechanical Reproduction in South Asia

4. The Cinema as Mass Culture: The Melodramas of Mechanical Reproduction

Part III: Intermediality

5. The Emergence of Topicality: Snapshot Cultures and Newspaper Photojournalism

6. Politics across Media: The Partition of Bengal (1905) and the Cinematic City

Part IV: Archives

7.The Abundant Ephemeral: The Protocols of Popular Film Historiography in India

8. Postscript

Notes
Works Cited
Filmography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sudhir Mahadevan is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media at the University of Washington.