TY - BOOK AU - Dass,Manishita TI - Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India SN - 9780199394401 AV - PN1993 .O987 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - Motion pictures KW - India KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Motion picture audiences KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1058080&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -