Outside the lettered city [electronic resource] : cinema, modernity, and the public sphere in late colonial India / Manishita Dass.
2015
PN1993.5.I8 D284 2015eb
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Title
Outside the lettered city [electronic resource] : cinema, modernity, and the public sphere in late colonial India / Manishita Dass.
Author
Dass, Manishita, author.
ISBN
9780199394418 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199394388 doi
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PN1993.5.I8 D284 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.430954
Summary
This 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.
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This 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: 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.
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.