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 .V479 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Motion pictures KW - India KW - History KW - Motion picture industry KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1079064&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -