Associate Professor Michelle Langford
BA (Hons 1) (University of Sydney)
PhD (University of Sydney)
I am Associate Professor in Film Studies and a fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy.
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My core research and publication activities are driven by my longstanding interest in the cinemas of Germany and Iran. These vastly different national cinemas are closely connected through my theorisation of allegorical processes in film combined with a close attention to the impact of socio-political and historical contexts on the development of film style. My current research is focused primarily on Iranian cinema. This emphasis on Iranian cinema has allowed me to extend and expand my theorisation of allegorical cinema into an area of national cinema studies that is both contemporary and dynamic. My most recent research project looks at the German films of the Iranian Filmmaker Sohrab Shahid Saless.
My new book听听will be published by Bloomsbury on 25 July 2019
I am academic program co-ordinator for the
My Research Supervision
PhD Supervisions
Current PhD Supervisions:
- Mahsa Salamati: Circulation of Iranian Cinema
- Mazda Moradabbasi:听Theoretical Approach to Literary Adaptation in Iranian Cinema with a Focus on the New Wave Cinema and Child-Centered Films
- Max Bledstein:听Terrors of Identity: Horror and Historical Trauma in Contemporary Iranian Cinema
- Adineh Khojastehpour: Gender Translated across Cultures and Media: A Study of Gender Politics in Iranian Cinematic Adaptations of World Literature
- Luke Robinson: The Disappearing Faces of 1940s Hollywood Crime Films (caretaker supervisor)
Successful PhD Completions:
- Teo Miaw Lee: Industry, Space and Identity: Diasporic Chinese Indonesian Filmmaking in Perspective (2018)
- Melanie Robson: The Long Take in Contemporary European Cinema (as co-supervisor) (2017)
- Klara Bruveris: Globalisation and Latvian Cinema: Examining the impact of global flows on the development of aesthetic and thematic trends in contemporary Latvian film听(2016)
- Rodney Wallis:听(Re)Imagining the Promised Land: Israel and America in American Post-war Cinema (as co-supervisor) (2016)
- Rosa Holman: Iranian Women鈥檚 Cinema: Recovering Voice, Reclaiming Authority (2015)
- Louise Malcolm: Film Performance in the Films of Wong Kar-Wai (2014)
- Naadir Junaid:听Bengali political cinema: protest and social transformation (as co-supervisor) (2013)
- Sanaz Fotouhi: Ways of Being, Lines of Becoming: A Study of Post-Revolutionary Iranian Literature in English (as joint supervisor) (2012)
- Eva Lewkowicz: Beyond the Happy Ending: Re-Viewing Female 'Citizenship' in the Mexican Telenovela Industry (2011)
- AeGyung Shim: Korean Cinema of Perseverance: Pushing the Boundaries of Quality During the Park Chung Hee Authoritarian Era, 1961-1970 (2010) (as co-supervisor)
- Khosrow Shahriari: Breaking Down Borders and Bridging Barriers: Iranian Taziyeh Theatre听(2007)
Honours Supervisions
- Alex Malcolm 'Affective Memory in 听Post-2000s Zainichi Cinema' (2019 - caretaker supervisor)
- Zachary Karpinellison Negotiating Spectatorship: Censorship and Change in Hollywood Films Released in China' (2018)
- Thi Tuong Vi Nguyen 'Red Silk and Golden Flowers: An analysis of Zhang Yimou鈥檚 Ju Dou (1990) and Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)'听(2011)
- Klara Bruveris "鈥榃ished-for鈥 Masculinities and Harsh Realities: Searching for the Latvian Man" (2010)
- Martin Clarke 'The Return of the Sacred in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema.'听(2009)
My Teaching
Introduction to Film Studies
Issues in Film Styles and Aesthetics (focus on allegorical cinema)
National Cinemas
Honours in Film Studies