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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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"""...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"

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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Sudhir Mahadevan is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media at the University of Washington.

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