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