South Asia Center presents: Anand Pandian

Anand Pandian Department of Anthropology, John Hopkins University Landscapes of Expression: Affective Encounters in South Indian Filmmaking 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 upon ethnographic fieldwork with Tamil filmmakers in Chennai, Switzerland, and Dubai, the essay explores worldly accidents of circumstance through which cinema gains affective life