Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial India

by Manishita Dass

Outside the Lettered City traces how middle-class Indians responded to the rise of the cinema as a popular form of mass entertainment in early 20th century India, focusing on their preoccupation with the mass public made visible by the cinema and with the cinema's role as a public sphere and a mass medium of modernity. It draws on archival research to uncover aspirations and anxieties about the new medium, which opened up tantalizing possibilities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199394385
• ISBN13: 9780199394388
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"