Drawing on the Indian Cinematograph Committee Report of 1928 and the transcripts of its hearings and interviews, this essay shows how middle-class elites in colonial India imagined the mass public created and made visible by the cinema as a divided audience, primarily segmented along class lines, simultaneously menacing and vulnerable.
"The Crowd outside the Lettered City: Imagining the Mass Audience in 1920s India."Cinema Journal 48 (2009): 77-98.↧
