Outside the lettered city : cinema, modernity, and the public sphere in late colonial India /
Dass, Manishita.author.
Includes index.
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: film criticism and the making of a Bengali film culture -- Conclusion: the once and future public.
Motion pictures
Motion picture audiences