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082			_a791.430954 _bMEH
100			_aMeheli Sen ed.
245		0	_aFigurations in Indian film _cedited by Meheli Sen and Anustup Basu
250			_a1st ed.
260			_bOrent Blackswan Private Limited _c2013 _aNew Delhi
300			_ax, 292 p. _b: ill. _c; 23 cm.
504			_aBib and Ref
520			_aIndian cinematic traditions have always relied on eclectic ways of figuration that combine signs and affects of desire and abomination. That is, incarnations often emerge at critical interfaces between good/bad, Indian/western, self/other, virtue/vice, myth/reality, and so on. Such figures are products of discontinuous assembling processes that cut through dyadic arrangements and pass the same character/body/identity via different, often contradictory, moral economies and sign systems. These many-armed, complex modes of figuration carry a special tenacity in Indian cinema for many reasons, but perhaps most importantly because the template of classical realist narration usually has had limited authority over its proceedings. Perpetually caught between the home and the world, between elation and agony, such cinematic entities carry in them the diverse, contending energies of the overall assembling arena of Indian modernity itself. The essays in this volume consider the issue of figuration in the broadest sense, including formations that are supra-individual, animalistic, divine and machinic.
650			_aMotion pictures--India.
700			_aAnustup Basu
942			_cENGLISH
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