Download or read book Figurations in Indian Film written by Meheli Sen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a series of essays that interrogate the notion of figuration in Indian cinemas. The essays collectively argue that the figures which exhibit maximum tenacity in Indian cinema often emerge in the interface of recognizable binaries: self/other, Indian/foreign, good/bad, virtue/vice, myth/reality and urban/rural.