TY - BOOK AU - Dass,Manishita TI - Outside the lettered city: cinema, modernity, and the public sphere in late colonial India SN - 9780190859190 (pbk.) U1 - 791.430954 DAS 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Motion pictures KW - India KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Motion picture audiences N1 - 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 ER -