This quantity brings jointly a chain of essays that examine figures, representational modes that may be learn as figural, and in a few cases, the bounds of figurability in Indian cinema. Cinematic traditions in India have regularly depended on eclectic methods of figurations that mix symptoms and impacts of hope and abomination. that's, incarnations usually emerge at severe interfaces among good/bad, Indian/western, self/other, virtue/vice, myth/reality etc. Such figures are items of discontinuous assembling strategies that minimize via dyadic preparations and move an identical character/body/identity through varied, frequently contradictory, ethical economies and signal structures. The essays within the e-book give some thought to the difficulty of figuration within the broadest experience, together with formations which are supra-individual, animalistic and machinic.
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