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PROF Rachel Dwyer's Outputs (71)

Bollywood’s India: Hindi cinema as a guide to contemporary India (2014)
Book
Dwyer, R. (2014). Bollywood’s India: Hindi cinema as a guide to contemporary India. Reaktion Books

Bollywood movies have long been known for their colourful song-and-dance numbers and knack of combining drama, comedy, action-adventure and music. But these films rarely reflect the reality of life on the Indian subcontinent. In this book Rachel Dwye... Read More about Bollywood’s India: Hindi cinema as a guide to contemporary India.

My Lord, the elephant (2013)
Journal Article
Dwyer, R. (2013). My Lord, the elephant. Seminar (New Delhi.1959), 651, 39-42

The biggest star of all: the elephant in Indian cinema (2013)
Journal Article
Dwyer, R. (2013). The biggest star of all: the elephant in Indian cinema. Religions of South Asia, 7, 195-210. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.v7i1-3.195

In 2010, the Indian elephant (elephas maximus indica) was declared a National Heritage Animal, in view of its contribution to Indian culture and history. It is not surprising that the elephant features in Hindi film, but it is striking that it featur... Read More about The biggest star of all: the elephant in Indian cinema.

Trunk Lines (2013)
Journal Article
Dwyer, R. (2013). Trunk Lines. TLS. Times literary supplement,

Fire and Rain, The Tramp and The Trickster: romance and the family in the early films of Raj Kapoor (2013)
Journal Article
Dwyer, R. (2013). Fire and Rain, The Tramp and The Trickster: romance and the family in the early films of Raj Kapoor. The South Asianist, 2(3), 9-32

Ranbir Raj Kapoor (1924-1988) is one of the greatest figures of Hindi cinema. His career of over forty years brought him major fame in India and overseas as star, director and producer. Championed by Nehru, an international star long before talk of g... Read More about Fire and Rain, The Tramp and The Trickster: romance and the family in the early films of Raj Kapoor.

Le cinéma indien (2013)
Book Chapter
Dwyer, R. (2013). Le cinéma indien. In K. Bates, M. Boisvert, S. Granger, & C. Jaffrelot (Eds.), L'Inde et ses avatars: Pluralité d'une puissance (275-306). Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal

Happy ever after: Hindi films and the happy ending. (2013)
Book Chapter
Dwyer, R. (2013). Happy ever after: Hindi films and the happy ending. In N. Ssorin-Chaikov (Ed.), The topography of happiness from the American dream to postsocialism/ Топография счастья от Американской мечты к пост-социализму (357-402). New Literary Observer [Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie]

Zara hatke!: The new middle classes and the segmentation of Hindi cinema (2011)
Book Chapter
Dwyer, R. (2011). Zara hatke!: The new middle classes and the segmentation of Hindi cinema. In H. Donner (Ed.), Being middle-class in contemporary India: A way of life (184-208). Routledge

Zara hatke! shows how the Indian new middle classes, previously assessed by income or consumption, can be examined by looking at newly differentiated audiences for Hindi films which have emerged in the last two decades. The films cluster along a con... Read More about Zara hatke!: The new middle classes and the segmentation of Hindi cinema.

I am Crazy about the Lord: The Muslim Devotional Genre in Hindi Film (2010)
Journal Article
Dwyer, R. (2010). I am Crazy about the Lord: The Muslim Devotional Genre in Hindi Film. Third Text, 24(1), 123-134. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528820903488992

The study of the 'Islamicate' films of Bombay has focused on high-quality genres, such as the Islamicate historical, the Muslim social, and the courtesan film. This paper looks at a neglected sub-genre which it labels 'the Muslim Devotional', using t... Read More about I am Crazy about the Lord: The Muslim Devotional Genre in Hindi Film.