Outside the lettered city : cinema, modernity, and the public sphere in late colonial India
Dass, ManishitaAuthor
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 22, 2015).
Motion pictures
Motion picture audiences
Film
Music, Dance, Drama & Film