Gohar Siddiqui is a film scholar whose work focuses on Indian cinema, film remakes, and gender studies. She joined Clark University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts in Fall 2017. Her courses range from foundational courses on the study of film to courses on international cinema, film melodrama, remakes, and Bollywood. Her book, Déjà Viewed: Nation, Gender, and Genre in Bollywood Remakes of Hollywood Cinema (2025) is part of SUNY Press’s Horizons of Cinema Series. The book examines Bollywood remakes as a gendered response to the rapidly shifting terrain within the film industry since the 1990s. Her scholarship in transnational feminism and film studies appears in publications on feminist films and auteurs like Alankrita Shrivastava; domestic abuse film cycle; and docudrama. She has also published on stardom and nation in her essays on Salman Khan and on Shahrukh Khan. Currently, she is working on the courtesan film and gender.
Professor Siddiqui completed her Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 2013. She received the Hodgkins Junior Faculty Award that recognizes faculty for their research, teaching, and service in 2019.
Scholarly Interests: Film Remakes, Docudrama, Popular Hindi Cinema, Transnational Feminism.
Courses Offered:
SCRN 101: Foundations of Screen Studies
SCRN 115: Cinephilia (FYI)
SCRN 121: History of International Cinema Until 1960
SCRN 124: History of International Cinema Since 1960
SCRN 130: Film Genre
SCRN 225: Bollywood & Beyond
SCRN 222: Global Remakes