Contact Information
M/C 166
Urbana, IL 61801
Education
Computer Science, ICAN Graduate Certificate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Highlighted Publications
Mehta, R. B., & Pandharipande, R. V. (Eds.) (2010). Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora. (Anthem South Asian studies). Anthem Press. https://doi.org/10.7135/UPO9781843318897
Mehta, R. B., & Mookerjea-Leonard, D. (Eds.) (2015). The Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, and Aesthetics. (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series; Vol. 93). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315769608
Recent Publications
Mehta, R. B. (2024). Retooling Trauma: Partition as Celebratory Nationalism in Neoliberal Metropolitan Cinema. South Asian Review, 45(1-2), 39-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2023.2275085
Mehta, R. B. (2020). Unruly Cinema: History, Politics, and Bollywood. University of Illinois Press. https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctv137973k
Mehta, R. B. (2019). Indian cinema, Indian democracy: An unusual cold war saga, 1947-89. In P. Fu, & M.-F. Yip (Eds.), The Cold War and Asian Cinemas (pp. 194-213). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429425202-11
Mehta, R. B. (2018). The Nation-State’s Other: Postcolonial Terrorism in the Indian Context. In P. C. Herman (Ed.), Terrorism and Literature (pp. 110-127). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316987292.007
Mehta, R. B., & Mookerjea-Leonard, D. (2015). Introduction. In R. B. Mehta, & D. Mookerjea-Leonard (Eds.), The Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, and Aesthetics (pp. 1-8). (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315769608-2