Outside the lettered city : cinema, modernity, and the public sphere in late colonial India

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...

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Main Author:
Dass, Manishita
Format:
Electronic eBook
Language:
English
Published:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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.
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Notes:
English
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-939441-5
Subjects:
Motion pictures > History > 20th century > India.
Motion picture audiences > History > India.
Film
Music, Dance, Drama & Film
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