Salma Siddique
Biographic Data
| ID | 159046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Salma Siddique |
| GIVEN NAMES | Salma |
| FAMILY NAME | Siddique |
| SIGNATURE | SIDDIQUE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews Fife Scotland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8952-7903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cinema Haunts
Anatomy, Archaeology, Archive: Media Historiography and Its Forms
Phantasmatic Remediations Between Archives and Platforms
Idols and Ideologies
Cinema in the Age of Social Media
Imaginations and Infrastructures of Visibility
Islamicate
Anthropology in the Consulting Room: An Interview with Salma Siddique by Virginia R. Dominguez
Salma Siddique is an academic and clinical anthropologist in Scotland. She obtained her doctorate in anthropology from the University of St. Andrews and later became a practicing psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. She is an honorary lecturer at the University of St. Andrews and teaches psychoanalytical anthropology. She lectured for five years in psychotherapy at the University of Aberdeen and for ten years before that across the discipline…
Nigar Hai Toh Industry Hai: Notes on the Morale and Mortality of Pakistani Film
Combining archival and ethnographic fieldwork, this piece reflects on the scope of film publicity through the author’s conversations with the proprietor-editor of the oldest film magazine in Pakistan, The Nigar Weekly. Offering a larger view from post-colonial Karachi of political and national transitions, Nigar’s brand of film commentary in the 1950s and 60s, reveled in connecting and cohabiting the multiple film centers in South Asia: Karachi, …
Archive Filmaria
This essay examines the missing national film archive of Pakistan against the politics of competing cultural memory. Sharing a common past yet existing in the shadows of the Indian film industry, cinema in Pakistan found itself in an unusual predicament after decolonization and Partition. While filmmaking was expected to carry the imprint of national difference, the intercultural context of colonial India bequeathed the industry its traditions an…
“Someone to Check Her a Bit”
Identifying the earliest examples that document partition in Bombay cinema, this article delves into the relationship between a historic trauma and physical comedy through the star performance of Meena Shorey in a trilogy of romantic comedies, Ek Thi Larki (Once There Was a Girl, 1949), Dholak (Drumbeats, 1951), and Ek Do Teen (One Two Three, 1953). In these films, the female protagonist wrestles men, scales walls, drives tractors, and makes a sp…
Ellipses: Cultural Reflexivity in Transactional Analysis Supervision
The author reviews the literature on supervision and the use of autoethnography as a research method. On this basis she then explores her own ideas for improving cultural reflexivity within models of supervision, with a particular focus on transactional analysis. She suggests that supervisory practice could be enhanced by being aware of the elliptical spaces between personal identity and the professional role, between supervisor and supervisee, a…
Rustic Releases: Vernacular Cinema and Partition Temporality in Lahore
Mapping the complex temporalities set in motion by Partition for film representation and production, this article explores the aesthetic and narrative choices in vernacular cinema from early Pakistan. Here both émigré and ‘indigenous’ film-makers in post-Partition Lahore embraced Punjabi to safely negotiate a regional market, revealing continuity with pre-national film output. Thematically, these films drew on folk tales and legends (qissa – dast…
Anthropology in the Consulting Room: An Interview with Salma Siddique by Virginia R. Dominguez
Salma Siddique is an academic and clinical anthropologist in Scotland. She obtained her doctorate in anthropology from the University of St. Andrews and later became a practicing psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. She is an honorary lecturer at the University of St. Andrews and teaches psychoanalytical anthropology. She lectured for five years in psychotherapy at the University of Aberdeen and for ten years before that across the discipline…
Rustic Releases: Vernacular Cinema and Partition Temporality in Lahore
Mapping the complex temporalities set in motion by Partition for film representation and production, this article explores the aesthetic and narrative choices in vernacular cinema from early Pakistan. Here both émigré and ‘indigenous’ film-makers in post-Partition Lahore embraced Punjabi to safely negotiate a regional market, revealing continuity with pre-national film output. Thematically, these films drew on folk tales and legends (qissa – dast…
“Someone to Check Her a Bit”
Identifying the earliest examples that document partition in Bombay cinema, this article delves into the relationship between a historic trauma and physical comedy through the star performance of Meena Shorey in a trilogy of romantic comedies, Ek Thi Larki (Once There Was a Girl, 1949), Dholak (Drumbeats, 1951), and Ek Do Teen (One Two Three, 1953). In these films, the female protagonist wrestles men, scales walls, drives tractors, and makes a sp…
Ellipses: Cultural Reflexivity in Transactional Analysis Supervision
The author reviews the literature on supervision and the use of autoethnography as a research method. On this basis she then explores her own ideas for improving cultural reflexivity within models of supervision, with a particular focus on transactional analysis. She suggests that supervisory practice could be enhanced by being aware of the elliptical spaces between personal identity and the professional role, between supervisor and supervisee, a…
Rustic Releases: Vernacular Cinema and Partition Temporality in Lahore
Mapping the complex temporalities set in motion by Partition for film representation and production, this article explores the aesthetic and narrative choices in vernacular cinema from early Pakistan. Here both émigré and ‘indigenous’ film-makers in post-Partition Lahore embraced Punjabi to safely negotiate a regional market, revealing continuity with pre-national film output. Thematically, these films drew on folk tales and legends (qissa – dast…
Archive Filmaria
This essay examines the missing national film archive of Pakistan against the politics of competing cultural memory. Sharing a common past yet existing in the shadows of the Indian film industry, cinema in Pakistan found itself in an unusual predicament after decolonization and Partition. While filmmaking was expected to carry the imprint of national difference, the intercultural context of colonial India bequeathed the industry its traditions an…
Nigar Hai Toh Industry Hai: Notes on the Morale and Mortality of Pakistani Film
Combining archival and ethnographic fieldwork, this piece reflects on the scope of film publicity through the author’s conversations with the proprietor-editor of the oldest film magazine in Pakistan, The Nigar Weekly. Offering a larger view from post-colonial Karachi of political and national transitions, Nigar’s brand of film commentary in the 1950s and 60s, reveled in connecting and cohabiting the multiple film centers in South Asia: Karachi, …
Islamicate
Anthropology in the Consulting Room: An Interview with Salma Siddique by Virginia R. Dominguez
Salma Siddique is an academic and clinical anthropologist in Scotland. She obtained her doctorate in anthropology from the University of St. Andrews and later became a practicing psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. She is an honorary lecturer at the University of St. Andrews and teaches psychoanalytical anthropology. She lectured for five years in psychotherapy at the University of Aberdeen and for ten years before that across the discipline…
Imaginations and Infrastructures of Visibility
Idols and Ideologies
Cinema in the Age of Social Media
Phantasmatic Remediations Between Archives and Platforms
Cinema Haunts
Anatomy, Archaeology, Archive: Media Historiography and Its Forms
Art (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Movie theater (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)