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A Very Old Machine - The Many Origins of the Indian Cinema 1840-1930

by Sudhir Mahadevan
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788178245256
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd
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  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: INR 795.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1000 grams
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This book shows how Indian cinema’s many origins in the technologies and practices of the nineteenth century continue to play a vital and broad function in the twenty-first.

Mahadevan proposes that there has never been a singular cinema in India; rather, Indian cinema has been a multifaceted phenomenon that was understood, experienced, and present in everyday life in myriad ways.

Employing methods of media archaeology, close textual analysis, archival research, and cultural theory, he digs into the history of photography, print media, practices of piracy and showmanship, and contemporary everyday imaginations of the cinema to provide an understanding of how the cinema came to be such a dominant cultural force in India. The result is an innovative account of Indian cinema’s “many origins.”

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

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