Publication

2015-11-02 - Oxford University Press

Language

English

Word Count

62,000 words, Guess

Page Count

248 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

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  • Amazon0199394393

Classifications

  • LCCPN1993.5.I8 D284 2015
  • LCCPN1993.5.I8D284 2015

Description

This title traces how middle-class Indians responded to the rise of the cinema as a popular form of mass entertainment in early twentieth-century India. It draws on archival research to uncover aspirations and anxieties about the new medium, which opened up tantalising possibilities for nationalist mobilisation on the one hand and troubling challenges to the cultural authority of Indian elites on the other.

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Other Editions

  • Outside the Lettered City: Cinema, Modernity, and the Public Sphere in Late Colonial IndiaPaperbackOxford University Press2015-11-02

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