A Very Old Machine

A Very Old MachineArgues that Indian cinema's deep nineteenth century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty first century present. 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

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