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

Autor Manishita Dass
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 noi 2015
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 for nationalist mobilization on the one hand, and troubling challenges to the cultural authority of Indian elites on the other. Using case-studies drawn from the film cultures of Bombay and Kolkata, it demonstrates how discourses about the cinematic public dovetailed into discourses about a national public, giving rise to considerable excitement about cinema's potential to democratize the public sphere beyond the limits of print-literate culture, as well as to deepening anxieties about cultural degeneration. The case-studies also reveal that early twentieth century discourses about the cinema contain traces of a formative tension in Indian public culture, between visions of a deliberative public and spectres of the unruly masses.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199394395
ISBN-10: 0199394393
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 3 halftones
Dimensiuni: 213 x 142 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

This book-length study of the emergence of cinema as a mass public entertainment and the discursive relationship between different cinematic constituencies brings forth a rich and complex cinematic culture and will be a meaningful addition to the field.
Over and above the strength of its arguments, Outside the Lettered City is a shining example of comprehensive archival research that is optimized through approaches drawn from ethnography, anthropology, and cultural history.
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.

Notă biografică

Manishita Dass is Lecturer in World Cinema at Royal Holloway, University of London.