Publications

Forthcoming

2014 — Bollywood. (Four Volumes in series Major Works Collection). London: Routledge.

2014 — The Cultural History of the Indian Elephant. Kantonah, NY: Blue Bridge Books.

2012 — Bollywood’s India: Hindi Cinema as a Guide to Modern India. London: Reaktion; New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

2012 — Keywords in modern Indian studies. Co-edited volume with Gita Dharampal-Frick, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach and Jahnavi Phalkey. (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

2012 — ‘The Hindi film biopic and the new Indian cinema.’ In Belen Vidal and Tom Brown (eds) The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture. In the series, American Film Institute Readers, ed. Edward Brannigan and Charles Wolfe. London and New York: Routledge.

2012 — ‘The Hindi film biopic’ In Robert Rosenstone and Constantin Parveluscu (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Historical Film. Oxford: Blackwell.

2012 — ‘The Biggest Star of All: The Elephant in Indian Cinema.’ Religions of South Asia, special issue, ‘Charming Beauties and Frightful Beasts: Non-human Animals in South Asian Myth, Ritual and Folklore’, edited by Thomas Dähnhardt and Fabrizio Ferrari. Volume also to appear as a book.

Authored Books

2008 — What do Hindus Believe? London: Granta.

2006 — Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema. London, New York and New Delhi: Routledge (Sections reprinted in Brent Plate and Jolyon Mitchell (eds), The Religion and Film Reader. London: Routledge, pp135-42.

2005 — 100 Bollywood Films. London: British Film Institute.

2002 — Rachel Dwyer & Divia Patel, Cinema India: The Visual Culture of Hindi Film. London: Reaktion.

2002 — Yash Chopra. London: British Film Institute

2000 — All You Want is Money, All You Need is Love. London: Continuum.

2000 — The Poetics of Devotion: The Gujarati Lyrics of Dayaram. London: Routledge (London Studies on South Asia, 19).

1995 — Gujarati (Teach Yourself). New Delhi: Hachette India.

Edited Books

2011 — Rachel Dwyer & Jerry Pinto (eds), Beyond the Boundaries of Bollywood: The Many Forms of Hindi Cinema. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

2000 — Rachel Dwyer & Christopher Pinney (eds), Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and Consumption of Popular Culture in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press (SOAS Studies on South Asia).

Book Chapters

2012 — ‘Bollywood’s Empire.’ In: Chatterjee, Joya and Washbrook, David, (eds.), Routledge handbook of South Asian diaspora. London: Routledge. (Forthcoming)

2012 —’Happy Ever After: Hindi Films and the Happy Ending.’ In: Ssorin-Chaikov , Nikolai, (ed.), The Topography of Happiness from the American Dream to Postsocialism/ Топография счастья от Американской мечты к пост-социализму. (Forthcoming)

2011 — ‘Bombay Gothic: 60 years of Mahal/The mansion, dir. Kamal Amrohi, 1949.’ In: Beyond the boundaries of Bollywood: the many forms of Hindi cinema. Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 130-155.

2011 — ‘Zara hatke!: The New Middle Classes and the Segmentation of Hindi Cinema.’ In: Donner, Henrike, (ed.), A Way of Life: Being Middle-class in Contemporary India. London: Routledge. pp184-208.

2009 — ‘Bimal Roy: A Different Kind of Hindi Cinema.’ In: Bhattacharya , Rinki, (ed.), Bimal Roy: The Man Who Spoke in Pictures. New Delhi: Penguin, pp. 162-171.

2009 — ‘Ich mag es, wenn du zornig wirst: Amitabh Bachchan, Emotionen und Stars im Hindi-film.’ In: Tieber, Claus, (ed.), Fokus Bollywood: das indische Kino in wissenschaftlichen Diskursen. Münster: Lit. Verlag, pp. 99-115.

2009 — ‘Depictions of and by Religious Practitioners in Films: Hinduism.’ In: Lyden, John, (ed.), Routledge Companion to Religion and Film. New York: Routledge, pp. 141-161.

2007 — ‘Indian Cinema.’ In: Cook, Pam, (ed.), The Cinema Book. London: British Film Institute, pp. 221-223.

2006 — ‘Planet Bollywood: Hindi Film in the UK.’ In: Sayyid, SHasan and Ali, N and Kalra, VS, (eds.), A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain. London: Hurst & Co., pp. 366-375.

2006 — ‘The Saffron Screen?: Hindi Movies and Hindu Nationalism.’ In: Meyer, B. and Moors, A., (eds.), Religion, Media and the Public sphere. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 422-460.

2006 — ‘Kiss or Tell? Declaring Love in Hindi Films.’ In: Orsini, F., (ed.), Love in South Asia: A Cultural History. Cambridge University Press, pp. 289-302.

2006 — ‘The Goddess in Indian Film.’ In: Goddess: Divine Energy. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, pp. 153-155.

2005 — ‘Cinema.’ In: Cush, D. and Robinson, C. and York, M., (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Hinduism. London: Routledge Curzon.

2004 — ‘Yeh shaadi nahin ho sakti! (This wedding cannot happen!).’ In: Jones, GW and K.Ramdas,, (eds.), (Un)tying the Knot: Ideal and Reality in Asian Marriage. Asia Research Institute, National Univesrity of Singapore (Singapore), pp. 59-90.

2004 — ‘International Hinduism: The Swaminarayan Sect.’ In: Jacobsen, KA and Kumar, P, (eds.), South Asians in the Diaspora: Histories and Religious Traditions. Brill (Netherlands), pp. 180-199.

2004 — ‘Representing the Muslim: The ‘Courtesan Film’ in Indian Popular Cinema.’ In: Parfitt, T and Y.Egorava,, (eds.), Mediating the Other: Representations of Jews, Muslims and Christians in the Media. London: Routledge/Curzon, pp. 78-92.

2002 — ‘Landschaft der Liebe: die indischen Mittelschichten,die romantische Liebe und das Konsumdenken.’ In: Schneider, A, (ed.), Bollywood: das indische Kino und die Schweiz. Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich (Switzerland), pp. 97-105.

2000 — ‘Shooting Stars: The Indian Film Magazine Stardust.’ In: Dwyer, Rachel and Pinney, C, (eds.), Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Consumption and Politics of Public Culture inx India. India: Oxford University Press, pp. 247-85.

2000 — ‘Bombay Ishtyle.’ In: Bruzzi, S and Gibson, P, (eds.), Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. London: Routledge, pp. 178-190.

1998 — ‘“Starry Nights”: The Novels of Shobha Dé.’ In: d’Haen, Theo, (ed.), (Un)writing Empire. Amsterdam:Rodopi, pp. 117-133.

1994 — ‘Caste, Religion and Sect in Gujarat: Followers of Vallabhacharya and Swaminarayan.’ In: Ballard, Roger, (ed.), Desh Pardesh: The South Asian Experience in Britain. London: Hurst, pp. 165-190.

Articles & Encyclopaedia Entries

2011 — ‘The Case of the Missing Mahatma: Gandhi and the Hindi Cinema.’ Public Culture. Special issue edited by Ritu Birla and Faisal Devji, 23 (2). pp. 349-376.

2011 — ‘Cinema’ in Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof (eds) Encyclopaedia of Global Religion. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.

2010 — ‘Hindi Films and their Audiences.’ Marg. A Magazine of the Arts, 61 (3). pp. 30-39.

2010 — ‘I am Crazy about the Lord: The Muslim Devotional Genre in Hindi Film.’ Third Text, 24 (1). pp. 123-134.

2010 — ‘Bollywood’s India: Hindi Cinema as a Guide to Modern India (Based on inaugural lecture, Feb 5, 2008).’ Asian Affairs, 41 (3). pp. 381-398.

2009 — ‘Phalke, Dhundiraj Govind [known as Dadasaheb Phalke] (1870-1944).’ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2007 — ‘Awaara’, ‘Deewaar’, ‘Mughal-e Azam’. In Chris Fujiwara (ed.) Defining moments in movies: the greatest films, stars, scenes, and events that made movie magic. London: Cassell.

2003 — ‘Mother India’, ‘Deewaar’, ‘Dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge’. In Steven Jay Schneider (ed.) 1001 Films to see before you die. London: Cassell.

2002 — ‘Real and Imagined Audiences: Lagaan and the Hindi Film after the 1990s.’ Etnofoor, Vol. 15 (1/2) . pp. 177-193.

2000 — ‘The Erotics of the Wet Sari in Hindi Films.’ South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 23 (2). pp. 143-159.

2000 — ‘”Indian Values” and the Diaspora: Yash Chopras Films of the 1990s.’ West Coast Line, 32-34 (2, Autumn). pp. 6-27.

1998 — ‘Hindi Romantic Cinema: Yash Chopra’s Kabhi Kabhie and Silsila.’ South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies . pp. 181-212.

Editing

2008 — Editor of book series on Indian cinema with Indiana University Press.

2006 — Editor of book series ‘Oxford Series in South Asian Cinema’ with Oxford University Press, India.

2005 — ‘Keywords in South Asian Studies.’ With Subir Sinha.

2004 — Special issue of South Asia Research 24 (1), May: ‘The cultural meaning of food in South Asia.’

1996 — Updated contributions to S. Weightman (ed.) Traveller’s literary companion to the Indian sub-continent. Brighton: In-print.

Reviews & Features

Amazon.co.uk, Arre, The Black Film Bulletin, The Book Review, BSOAS, Contemporary South Asia, Gastronomica, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, India International Centre Quarterly, India Today, Indian Express, Indobrit, Journal of Global History, The Little Black Book: Movies, Man’s World, Mid-day (Mumbai), Mint, New Statesman, New York Review of Ideas, Outlook, Sight and Sound, The Sunday Times of India, Tehelka, Time Out (Mumbai), The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Times Literary Supplement, Vanity Fair.

Writing for blogs such as Oxford Bookstore, India and the London Film Festival.

Programme notes for BAFTA awards; the National Theatre’s ‘Rafta rafta’ (2007); Festival of Indian Cinema, Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage and the Indian Embassy, Abu Dhabi.

Advisory Roles

Advisory Board member, Journal for South Asian Popular Culture (Routledge); South Asia Research (Sage Publications); ‘24 frames’, Wallflower Press.

Peer Review

Anonymous reviewer for many academic journals and university presses in the UK, the USA and India.