Outside the Lettered City
Subtitle: Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 02, 2015
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780199394395
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India