Michelle Langford

Michelle Langford is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She has published extensively on the cinemas of Germany and Iran. Her research on Iranian cinema has been published in leading film studies journals including Screen, Camera Obscura and Screening the Past. She is the author of Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter (Intellect, 2006), and Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance (Bloomsbury, 2019). Michelle also edited two volumes of The Directory of World Cinema: Germany (2012, 2013). Michelle is currently researching the German films of Sohrab Shahid Saless.