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A Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema)

Sudhir Mahadevan

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Description:In A Very Old Machine, Sudhir Mahadevan 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 its twenty-first-century present. He proposes that there has never been a singular cinema in India; rather, Indian cinema has been a multifaceted phenomenon that was (and is) understood, experienced, and present in everyday life in myriad ways. Employing methods of media archaeology, close textual analysis, archival research, and cultural theory, Mahadevan digs into the history of photography, print media, practices of piracy and showmanship, and contemporary everyday imaginations of the cinema to offer an understanding of how the cinema came to be such a dominant force of culture in India. The result is an open-ended and innovative account of Indian cinema s many origins. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema). To get started finding A Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 258

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: SUNY Press

Release: 2015

ISBN: 1438458304

Description: In A Very Old Machine, Sudhir Mahadevan 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 its twenty-first-century present. He proposes that there has never been a singular cinema in India; rather, Indian cinema has been a multifaceted phenomenon that was (and is) understood, experienced, and present in everyday life in myriad ways. Employing methods of media archaeology, close textual analysis, archival research, and cultural theory, Mahadevan digs into the history of photography, print media, practices of piracy and showmanship, and contemporary everyday imaginations of the cinema to offer an understanding of how the cinema came to be such a dominant force of culture in India. The result is an open-ended and innovative account of Indian cinema s many origins. "We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema). To get started finding A Very Old Machine: The Many Origins of the Cinema in India (SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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