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Authored Books

2014 — Picture abhi baaki hai: Bollywood as a guide to modern India. New Delhi: Hachette.

2014 — Bollywood’s India: Hindi cinema as a guide to contemporary India. London/Chicago: Reaktion Books.

2013 —  Get started in Gujarati (Teach Yourself Language) London: Teach Yourself/Hodder.

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). London: Hodder.

Edited Books

2021 — Cinema, soft power, and geo-political change. Co-edited with Stephanie Dennison. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

2019 — Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in honour of Jim Masselos. Co-edited with Manjiri Kamat and Prashant Kidambi.  London: Hurst/New York: Oxford University Press/Guurgaon: Penguin

2015 — Key concepts in modern Indian studies. Co-edited with Gita Dharmpal Frick, Monika Kirolskar Steinbach, and Jahnavi Phalkey. New Delhi/New York: Oxford University Press/New York University Press.

2015 — Bollywood. London: Routledge. (Critical concepts in media and cultural studies)

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

2018 — ‘Rimjhim ke taraane leke aayi barsaat’: Songs of love and longing in the Bombay rains.’  In Katherine R. Schofield, Imke Rajamani and Margrit Pernau (eds.) Monsoon feelings: a history of emotions in the rain. Delhi: Niyogi Books: 291-314

2017 — ‘Afterword.’  In Jayson Beaster-Jones and Natalie Sarrazin (eds)  Music in contemporary Indian film: memory, voice, identity. (Routledge Music and Screen Media).  London: Routledge: 192-8    

2016 — ‘Mumbai middlebrow: ways of thinking about the middle ground in Hindi cinema.’ In Sally Faulkner (ed.) Middlebrow cinema.  London: Routledge: 51-67

2016 — ‘I am crazy about the Lord: the Muslim devotional genre in Hindi film.’  In Ali Nobil Ahmad (ed.) Cinema in Muslim Societies.  London: Routledge: 118-129 (Reprint of 2010 article in Third Text)

2015 — ‘A star is born?: Rishi Kapoor and dynastic charisma in Hindi cinema.’ In: Cobb, Shelley and Ewen, Neil, (eds.), First comes love: Power couples, celebrity kinship, and cultural politics. New York: Bloomsbury Academic USA, pp. 96-115.

2015 — ‘Innocent abroad: Shah Rukh Khan, Karan Johar and the diasporic star.’ In: Dudrah, Rajinder and Mader, Elke and Fuchs, Bernhard, (eds.), Shah Rukh Khan and global Bollywood. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 49-69.

2015 — ‘I love you when you’re angry: Amitabh Bachchan, the star and emotion in the Hindi film.’ In: Bandhauer, Andrea and Royer, Michelle, (eds.), Stars in World Cinema: Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures. London: IB Tauris, pp. 13-23. (Tauris World Cinema Series)

2014 — ‘The biopic of the new middle classes in contemporary Hindi cinema.’ In: Brown, Tomand Vidal, Belen, (eds.), The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture. London: Routledge, pp. 68-83. (AFI Film readers)

2013 —  ‘The Hindi film biopic’ In Robert Rosenstone and Constantin Parvulescu (eds) The Blackwell Companion to Historical Film.  Oxford:                            Blackwell, pp. 219-232.

2013 — ‘Bollywood’s Empire.’ In: Chatterjee, Joya and Washbrook, David, (eds.),                                                                                                               Routledge handbook of South Asian diaspora. London: Routledge, pp. 407-416.

2013 — ‘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. pp. 357-402.

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

2020 — ‘Bombay-Mumbai: une ville mélodramatique.’  In ‘L’Inde colossale et capitale’, Critique LXXVI, 872-3, Jan-Feb: 158-168.

2019 — ‘Stardom’ (with Rakesh Sengupta).  Keywords in Bioscope (no further details)

2017 — ‘Calling God on the wrong number: Hindu-Muslim relations in PK (2014) and Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015).’ The Muslim World. © Hartford Seminary.  Special Issue: Hindu-Muslim Relations, edited by: Lucinda Allen Mosher, Shaunaka Rishi Das. April , Volume 107, Issue 2, pp. 256-270.

2015 — ‘Vighnaharta Shree Siddhivinayak: Ganesh, Remover of Obtacles, Lord of Beginnings, in Mumbai.’ Comparative Study of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 35 (2). pp. 263-276.

2013 — ‘My Lord, the elephant.’ Seminar: The Monthly Symposium, 651 . pp. 39-42.

2013 — ‘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.

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.

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.

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 Chopra’s 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.

Encyclopaedia Entries

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

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.

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