A Very Old Machine

The Many Origins of the Cinema in India

By: Sudhir Mahadevan

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Paperback | 2 July 2016

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258 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.47

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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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"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

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