PROFESSOR RACHEL DWYER
RESEARCH &
PUBLICATIONS
   
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1.
Books  
Singly authored
 

[2010]

Bollywood's India: Hindi cinema as a guide to modern India. London and Chicago: Reaktion Books; New Delhi: Oxford University Press  

2008a

What do Hindus believe? London: Granta  

2006a, 2007a

Filming the gods: religion and Indian cinema. London, New York and Delhi: Routledge. (Sections reprinted in Brent Plate and Jolyon Mitchell (eds) Religion and film: a reader. London: Routledge: 135-42  
 

2005

One hundred Bollywood films. London: British Film Institute/Berkeley: University of California Press/New Delhi: Roli Books  
 

2002a

Yash Chopra. In 'World directors' series'. London: British Film Institute/Berkeley: University of California Press/New Delhi: Roli Books  
 

2001

The poetics of devotion: the Gujarati lyrics of Dayaram. London: Curzon  
 

2000a

All you want is money, all you need is love: sexuality and romance in modern India. London: Cassell/New York: Continuum  
 

1995

Gujarati. (+ 90min. cassette), in the 'Teach yourself' series, London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton Educational (download pdf (43Mb)).  
 

Co-authored

 
 

2002

Cinema India: the visual culture of Hindi film. Co-authored with D. Patel, in the 'Envisioning Asia' series, ed. H. Bhabha, London: Reaktion Books and the Victoria and Albert Museum/New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press/Delhi: Oxford University Press  
 

Co-edited

 
 

2000

Pleasure and the nation: the history, consumption and politics of public culture in India. Edited volume with C. Pinney. Delhi: Oxford University Press  
2.
Chapters in Books  
 

[2009a]

'Bollywood in East Africa.' In E.E. Mawdsley (ed.) India and Africa. No further details  
 

[2008b]

'Directors and religion in Indian cinema' in John Lyden (ed.) Routledge companion volume to religion and film. New York: Routledge

 
 

2006c

'Kiss and tell: expressing love in Hindi movies.' In Francesca Orsini (ed.) Love in South Asia: a cultural history. University of Cambridge Oriental Publications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 289-302  
 

2006f

'Planet Bollywood: Hindi film in the UK.' In N. Ali, V. Kalra and S. Sayyid (eds) Postcolonial people: South Asians in Britain. C. Hurst & Co: London: 366-75  
 

2006e

'The saffron screen?: Hindi movies and Hindu nationalism.' In Birgit Meyer and Annalies Moors (eds) Religion, media and the public sphere. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 422-460  
 

2004a

'Yeh shaadi nahin ho sakti! (This wedding cannot happen!)' In G.W. Jones and Kamalini Ramdas (eds) (Un)tying the knot: ideal and reality in Asian marriage. (Asian Trends, 2) Singapore: Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore: 59-90  
 

2004b

'International Hinduism: the Swaminarayan sect.' In K.A. Jacobsen and P. Kumar (eds) South Asians in the diaspora: histories and religion traditions. Leiden and Boston: Brill: 180-99  
 

2004c

'Representing the Muslim: the 'courtesan film' in Indian popular cinema.' In T. Parfitt and Y. Egorova (eds) Mediating the other: representations of Jews, Muslims and Christians in the media. London: Routledge/Curzon, (Jewish Studies Series): 78-92  
 

2002b

'Landschaft der Liebe: die indischen Mittelschichten, die romantische Liebe und das Konsumdenken.' (tr. Wolfgang Himmelberg) In Alexandra Schneider (ed.) Bollywood: das indische Kino und die Schweiz. Edition Museum für Gestaltung: Zürich: 97-105  
 

2000b

'Bombay ishtyle.' In S. Bruzzi and P. Gibson (eds) Fashion cultures: theories, explorations and analysis. London: Routledge: 178-190  
 

2000c, [2008c]

'Shooting stars: the Indian film magazine Stardust.' In Dwyer and Pinney: 247-85. To be reprinted in Anandam Kavoori and Aswin Punathambekar (eds) Mapping Bollywood: Films, Cultures, and Identities in a Global World. New York: New York University Press  
 

1998a

'"Starry nights": the novels of Shobha Dé.' In Th. D'haen (ed.) (Un)writing empire. In 'Cross/cultures: readings in the post/colonial literatures in English' series, Vol 30. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi. 117-133  
 

1994

'Caste, religion and sect in Gujarat: followers of Vallabhacharya and Swaminarayan.' In R. Ballard (ed.) Desh pardesh: the South Asian experience in Britain. London: Hurst & Company. 165-190  
3.
Articles in refereed journals  
 

[2009b]

'I am crazy about the Lord: the Muslim devotional film. Third Text, special issue on Indian cinema  
 

2002c

'Real and imagined audiences: Lagaan and the Hindi film after the 1990s.' Etnofoor, 15 (1/2) December, Special volume: 'Screens':177-193. . Reprinted in Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn (with Vera Alexander) (eds) (2006) Peripheral centres, central peripheries: India and its diasporas. Transcultural Anglophone Studies, Vol. 1. LitVerlag: Munster: pp.

 
 

2000d

' "Indian values" and the diaspora: Yash Chopra's films of the 1990s.' West Coast Line, 32-34/2, Autumn 2000: 6-27; also in Parthiv Shah (ed.) Figures, facts, feelings: a direct diasporic dialogue. New Delhi: Centre for Media and Alternative Communication: 74-82  
 

2000e

'The erotics of the wet sari in Hindi films.' South Asia, 23 (2), June: 143-159. Translated into Flemish: 'De natte sari-sutra: vestimentaire erotiek in de moderne Hindi-film.' AS: mediatijdschrift, 170: 26-43  
 

1998b

'Hindi romantic cinema: Yash Chopra's Kabhi Kabhie and Silsila.' South Asia, XX1 (1), June, Special volume: 'Translatings: images from India's half century.': 181-212  
4.
Encyclopaedia entries and other short pieces  
 

[2009b]

ŒI am crazy about the Lord: the Muslim devotional film. Third Text, special issue on Indian cinema  
5.
Editing  
 

2006-

Editor of book series 'Oxford Series in South Asian Cinema'; under consideration as a series with the University of Indiana Press

 
 

2005-

'Keywords in South Asian Studies.' http://www.soas.ac.uk/centres/centreinfo.cfm?navid=912. With Subir Sinha  
 

2004d

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  
6.
Reviews and feature articles about films, books and cultural events  
 

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, Indobrit, Journal of Global History, The Little Black Book: Movies, Man¹s World, Mid-day (Mumbai), New Statesman, 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 Theatre¹s ŒRafta rafta¹ (2007)

 
7.
Other  

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

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

BOOKS FOR SALE (THROUGH AMAZON)  

Filming the gods: religion and Indian cinema. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.

One hundred Bollywood films. London: British Film Institute, 2005

Cinema India: the visual culture of Hindi film. Co-authored with D. Patel, in the 'Envisioning Asia' series, ed. H. Bhabha, London: Reaktion Books and the Victoria and Albert Museum/New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Yash Chopra. In 'World directors' series. London: British Film Institute/Berkeley: University of California Press/New Delhi: Roli Books, 2002

The poetics of devotion: the Gujarati lyrics of Dayaram. London: Curzon, 2001

Pleasure and the nation: the history, consumption and politics of public culture in India. Co-dited with C. Pinney. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000

All you want is money, all you need is love: sexuality and romance in modern India. London: Cassell/New York: Continuum, 2000

Gujarati. (+ 90min. cassette) London and New York: Hodder and Stoughton Educational, 1995

 

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