Manishita Dass

Outside the Lettered City

Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India

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Produktbeschreibung

Outside the Lettered City traces how middle-class Indians responded to the rise of the cinema as a popular form of mass entertainment in early 20th century India, focusing on their preoccupation with the mass public made visible by the cinema and with the cinema's role as a public sphere and a mass medium of modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 142mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780199394395
• ISBN-10: 0199394393
• Artikelnr.: 47869173

Autorenporträt

Manishita Dass is Lecturer in World Cinema at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Cinema and the Lettered City in Colonial India
* 1. Conjuring Tricks: Mythologicals and the Invention of An "Indian"
Public
* 2. Shadows on the Screen: Imagining the Mass Audience in 1920s India
* 3. A School for Scandal: Cinema and Lessons in Modernity
* 4. Distant Observers: Bengali Film Criticism and Dreams of a Future
Cinema
* Conclusion: The Once and Future Public