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Landscapes of Expression: Affective Encounters in South Indian Cinema
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- Volume 51, Number 1, Fall 2011
- pp. 50-74
- 10.1353/cj.2011.0078
- Article
- Additional Information
Focusing on material environments of affective encounter, this essay examines the expression of feelings such as joy, longing, and sadness in South Indian popular cinema. Relying on ethnographic fieldwork with Tamil filmmakers in Chennai, Switzerland, and Dubai, the essay explores worldly accidents of circumstance through which cinema gains affective life.