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Outside the lettered city : cinema, modernity, and the public sphere in late colonial India /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dass, Manishita (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > India > History > 20th century.
Motion picture audiences > India > History.
Motion picture audiences.
Motion pictures.
India.
1900-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.