Early cinema as photographic history: audience and theatrical space in colonial Bombay 1910–1915.

This paper starts from a single archival photograph as a gateway into the historiography of early cinema and its theatrical milieu in colonial Bombay. While a photograph provides only a fleeting glimpse into a now-vanished world, I use it as a fulcrum to construct a broader social and cultural histo...

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Published in:	Early Popular Visual Culture Vol. 23; no. 1/2; pp. 100 - 126
Main Author:	Hughes, Stephen Putnam
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb-May2025
Subjects:	Motion picture audiences Spectators British occupation of India, 1765-1947 Silent films Auditoriums Historical analysis History of photography Image analysis Mumbai (India)
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