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

Mahadevan, Sudhir

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1438458290 ISBN 13: 9781438458298

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2015

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Críticas:

"Sudhir Mahadevan does the impossible in A Very Old Machine ... He shows how various technologies that emerged in nineteenth-century India shaped its current cinema." -- H-Net Reviews (Jhistory)

"...methodologically and theoretically wide-ranging." -- BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies

"Sudhir Mahadevan's A Very Old Machine is a work of great theoretical sophistication and rigorous historical scholarship. A revisionist and definitive treatment of early Indian film, the book shows how prevailing attitudes toward technology, photography, empire, commodity, and mass culture made the cinema a socially and culturally distinct form in India. Drawing on a wealth of primary research, A Very Old Machine fills many gaps. Anyone who wants to know how Indian cinema became Indian will need to consult this book." -- James Morrison, editor of Hollywood Reborn: Movie Stars of the 1970s

Reseña del editor:

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

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1438458290
• ISBN 13: 9781438458298
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256