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Get on the train, baby!: Joining Kashmir and Kanyakumari through Hinglish and English accents and language in Chennai Express (2013) (2022)
Book Chapter
Ashton, H., & Dwyer, R. (2022). Get on the train, baby!: Joining Kashmir and Kanyakumari through Hinglish and English accents and language in Chennai Express (2013). In N. Majumdar, & R. Mazumdar (Eds.), Blackwell Companion to Indian Cinema. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119048206.ch21

This paper studies language in Rohit Shetty's blockbuster hit, Chennai Express . The train has been a pervasive symbol of mobility and modernity in Indian culture and film (cf. Aguiar 2011), and has been used as a setting for many film songs. This fi... Read More about Get on the train, baby!: Joining Kashmir and Kanyakumari through Hinglish and English accents and language in Chennai Express (2013).

Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in honour of Jim Masselos. (2019)
Book
Kidambi, P., Kamat, M., & Dwyer, R. (Eds.). (2019). Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in honour of Jim Masselos. Hurst and Co. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190061708.001.0001

‘City of Gold’, ‘Urbs Prima in Indis’, ‘Maximum City’: no Indian metropolis has captivated the public imagination quite like Mumbai. The past decade has seen an explosion of historical writing on the city that was once Bombay. This book, featuring ne... Read More about Bombay before Mumbai: Essays in honour of Jim Masselos..

Bollywood and America: an overview (2019)
Book Chapter
Dwyer, R. (2019). Bollywood and America: an overview. In S. Jhaveri (Ed.), Outsider films on America (140-161). Shoestring Publishers

Mumbai Middlebrow: ways of thinking about the middle ground in Hindi cinema (2016)
Book Chapter
Dwyer, R. (2016). Mumbai Middlebrow: ways of thinking about the middle ground in Hindi cinema. In S. Faulkner (Ed.), Middlebrow Cinema (51-68). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315630564-5

This chapter defines the middlebrow as occupying the middle ground between the highbrow, the arts that elicit intellectual responses as they may be challenging and uncomfortable, and the lowbrow, or cultural texts that elicit emotional, basic or bodi... Read More about Mumbai Middlebrow: ways of thinking about the middle ground in Hindi cinema.

Afterword (2016)
Book Chapter
Dwyer, R. (2016). Afterword. In J. Beaster-Jones, & N. Sarrazin (Eds.), Music in contermporary Indian film: memory, voice, identity (192-198). Routledge

Key concepts in modern Indian studies (2015)
Book
Dharampal-Frick, G., Dwyer, R., Kirloskar-Steinbach, M., & Phalkey, J. (Eds.). (2015). Key concepts in modern Indian studies. Oxford University Press/New York University Press

Bollywood (2015)
Book
Dwyer, R. (Ed.). (2015). Bollywood. Routledge

Serious research on Bollywood—perhaps the most well-known and vital aspect of contemporary Indian culture—has flourished in recent decades. This new four-volume collection from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative anthology to enable users t... Read More about Bollywood.