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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: xiv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780190859190 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430954 DAS 23 012546
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: Bengali film criticism and dreams of a future cinema -- Conclusion: the once and future public.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 791.430954 DAS 012546 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 012546

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-216) and index.

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: Bengali film criticism and dreams of a future cinema -- Conclusion: the once and future public.

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