000756997 000__ 02467cam\a2200397\i\4500 000756997 001__ 756997 000756997 005__ 20210515115715.0 000756997 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000756997 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000756997 008__ 150831s2015\\\\nyua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000756997 020__ $$a9780199394418$$q(electronic book) 000756997 0247_ $$a10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199394388$$2doi 000756997 035__ $$a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001245575 000756997 035__ $$a756997 000756997 040__ $$aStDuBDS$$beng$$cStDuBDS$$erda$$epn 000756997 050_4 $$aPN1993.5.I8$$bD284 2015eb 000756997 08204 $$a791.430954$$223 000756997 1001_ $$aDass, Manishita,$$eauthor. 000756997 24510 $$aOutside the lettered city$$h[electronic resource] :$$bcinema, modernity, and the public sphere in late colonial India /$$cManishita Dass. 000756997 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2015. 000756997 300__ $$a1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages) :$$billustrations 000756997 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000756997 336__ $$astill image$$2rdacontent 000756997 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000756997 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000756997 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000756997 5050_ $$aIntroduction: cinema and the lettered city in colonial India -- Conjuring tricks: mythologicals and the invention of an "Indian" public -- Shadows on the screen: imagining the mass audience in 1920s India -- A school for scandal: cinema and lessons in modernity -- Distant observers: Bengali film criticism and dreams of a future cinema -- Conclusion: the once and future public. 000756997 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000756997 5208_ $$aThis title traces how middle-class Indians responded to the rise of the cinema as a popular form of mass entertainment in early twentieth-century India. It draws on archival research to uncover aspirations and anxieties about the new medium, which opened up tantalising possibilities for nationalist mobilisation on the one hand and troubling challenges to the cultural authority of Indian elites on the other. 000756997 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 22, 2015). 000756997 650_0 $$aMotion pictures$$zIndia$$xHistory$$y20th century. 000756997 650_0 $$aMotion picture audiences$$zIndia$$xHistory. 000756997 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aDass, Manishita.$$tOutside the lettered city.$$dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2015$$z9780199394388$$w(DLC) 2015005993 000756997 85280 $$bebk$$hOxford Scholarship Online 000756997 85640 $$3Oxford scholarship online$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199394388.001.0001$$zOnline Access 000756997 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:756997$$pGLOBAL_SET 000756997 980__ $$aEBOOK 000756997 980__ $$aBIB 000756997 982__ $$aEbook 000756997 983__ $$aOnline