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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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| 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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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 229 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199394388 0199394385 9780199394395 0199394393 |