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Outside the Lettered City : Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India / Manishita Dass.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199394401
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1993 .O987 2015
Online resources: Available additional physical forms: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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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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