Outside the lettered city cinema, modernity, and the public sphere in late colonial India Dass, Manishita creator author. text bibliography History. nyu 2016 monographic eng print xiv, 229 pages ; 21 cm Introduction: cinema and the lettered city in colonial India -- Conjuring tricks: mythologicals and the invention of an "Indian" public -- Shadows on the screen: imagining the mass audience in 1920s India -- A school for scandal: cinema and lessons in modernity -- Distant observers: film criticism and the making of a Bengali film culture -- Conclusion: the once and future public. Manishita Dass. Includes index. a-ii--- Motion pictures India History 20th century Motion picture audiences India History Motion picture audiences Motion pictures India 1900-1999 fast PN1993.5.I8 D284 2016 791.430954 9780199394388 0199394385 9780199394395 0199394393 2015005993 DLC 150316 20170928104648.0 in00003596452 eng