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

Zusatztext Dass' book is an important contribution to the field of South Asian cinema studies and provides meaningful ways of understanding third world cinema in a global context. Informationen zum Autor Manishita Dass is Lecturer in World Cinema at Royal Holloway, University of London. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Manishita Dass, Manishita (Lecturer Dass, Dass Manishita
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2016
• EAN: 9780199394388
• ISBN: 978-0-19-939438-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, India, Colonialism & imperialism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Colonialism and imperialism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism