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.

Anustup Basu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Gautam Basu Thakur, Boise State University, USA Moinak Biswas, Jadavpur University, India Nandana Bose, University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA Sumita Chakravarty, The New School, USA Bishnupriya Ghosh, UC Santa Barbara, USA Usha Iyer, University of Pittsburgh, USA Anupama Kapse, Queens College, USA M. Madhava Prasad, University of Hyderabad, India Bhaskar Sarkar UC Santa Barbara, USA Meheli Sen, Rutgers University, USA Kirsten Strayer, University of Pittsburgh, USA