Select Publications

Books

Langford M, 2019, Allegory in Iranian Cinema The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/allegory-in-iranian-cinema-9781780762982/

Langford M, 2013, Directory of World Cinema: Germany 2, Intellect (UK), Bristol

Langford M, 2012, Directory of World Cinema: Germany, Langford M, (ed.), Intellect Books, Bristol

Langford ME, 2006, Allegorical Images Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter, Intellect Books, United Kingdom

Book Chapters

Langford M, 2021, 'Seeking Love in the Interstices: Acousmatic Listening and Counter-Memory in Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin', in Wittmann M; Holl U (ed.), Counter-Memories in Iranian Cinema, EUP, Edinburgh, pp. 146 - 166

Langford M, 2021, '04 Far From Home', in Introductions to In der Fremde, saxpublishers, Vienna, pp. 29 - 36

Langford M, 2021, 'Tales and the Cinematic Divan of Rakhshan Banietemad', in Ghorbankarimi M (ed.), ReFocus: the Films of Rakhshan Banietemad, EUP, Edinburgh, pp. 57 - 78

Langford M, 2020, 'Sohrab Shahid Saless and the Political Economy of the New German Cinema', in ReFocus: the Films of Sohrab Shahid Saless Exile, Displacement and the Stateless Moving Image, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 79 - 100

Langford M, 2018, 'Werner Schroeter's Salome (1971)', in Grundmann R (ed.), Werner Schroeter, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, pp. 78 - 91

Langford M, 2017, 'Santouri', in Jahed P (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2, Intellect (UK), Bristol, pp. 169 - 170

Langford M, 2017, 'Secret Ballot', in Jahed P (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2, Intellect (UK), Bristol, pp. 280 - 282

Langford M, 2017, 'The Circle', in Jahed P (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2, Intellect (UK), Bristol, pp. 148 - 150

Langford M, 2017, 'Two Women', in Jahed P (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2, Intellect (UK), Bristol, pp. 398 - 400

Langford ME, 2017, 'Majid Majidi', in Jahed P (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Iran 2, edn. Directory of World Cinema, Intellect (UK), Bristol, pp. 70 - 79

Langford ME, 2015, 'Iranian Cinema and Social Media', in Faris DM; Rahimi B (ed.), Social Media in Iran Politics and Society after 2009, SUNY Press, New York, pp. 251 - 270, http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6138-social-media-in-iran.aspx

Langford ME, 2015, 'I'm Ready for my Close-Up Mr Ayatollah! The Ideology of Female Stardom in Iranian Cinema', in Bandhauer A; Royer M (ed.), Stars in World Cinema: Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures, I.B. Tauris, London, pp. 119 - 130

Langford M, 2013, 'Costume Film', in Langford M (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Germany 2, edn. Directory of World Cinema, Intellect (UK), Bristol, pp. 159 - 166

Langford M, 2013, 'German Cinema and the Genre Film', in Langford M (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Germany 2, edn. Directory of World Cinema, Intellect (UK), Bristol, pp. 6 - 11

Langford M; Dawson R; Rizo Lenshyn VI, 2013, 'Sport Film', in Langford M (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Germany 2, edn. Directory of World Cinema, Intellect (UK), Bristol, pp. 41 - 52

Langford ME, 2012, '"German Cinema and the Vicissitudes of History"', in Langford M (ed.), The Directory of World Cinema: Germany, edn. 1, Intellect, Bristol, pp. 6 - 13, http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4789/

Langford ME, 2012, '"Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung: Coming to Terms with the Past"', in Langford M (ed.), The Directory of World Cinema: Germany, edn. 1, Intellect, Bristol, pp. 204 - 215, http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4789/

Langford ME, 2012, 'Cultural Diversity in Iranian Cinema', in Jahed P (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Iran, edn. Revised, Intelect, Bristol, pp. 258 - 266

Langford ME, 2011, '"Serenades"', in Beirne R; Bennett J (ed.), Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand, edn. 1, I. B. Tauris, London, pp. 252 - 256, http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/The%20arts/Film%20TV%20%20radio/Television/Making%20Film%20and%20Television%20Histories%20Australia%20and%20New%20Zealand.aspx?menuitem=%7BB571EE45-263D-4532-A616-771699D

Langford ME, 2008, 'Lola and the Vampire: Technologies of Time and Movement in German Cinema', in Bennett B; Furstenau M; Mackenzie A (ed.), Cinema and Technology: Cultures, Theories, Practices, edn. Original, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke & New York, pp. 187 - 200

Langford ME, 2008, 'Negotiating the Sacred Body in Iranian Cinema(s): National, Physical and Cinematic Embodiment in Majid Majidi`s Baran (2002)', in Coleman EB; Fernandes-Dias MS (ed.), Negotiating the Sacred II: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts, ANU E Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 161 - 171, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000291094900016&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Langford ME, 1995, 'Film Figures: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun and Alexander Kluge's The Female Patriot', in Jayamanne E (ed.), Kiss Me Deadly: Feminism and Cinema for the Moment, edn. Original, Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 147 - 179

Journal articles

Tisdell C; Balasooriya C; Langford M; Steel A; Velan G, 2019, 'Reflecting on the UNSW Scientia Education Academy: A case study for inspiring educational excellence', Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 9, pp. 232 - 244, http://nus.edu.sg/cdtl/engagement/publications/ajsotl-home/asian-journal-of-the-scholarship-of-teaching-and-learning

Langford M, 2018, 'Filmsaz iraní dar Berlin: Tashabohat va tafavothaye zendegi shahid sales ba kargardan mihman film “dar ghorbat" [Iranian Filmmaker in Berlin: Similarities and differences of Shahid Sales’s life with guest workers of the film entitled “In der Fremd”]', Farhangemrooz (Iranian journal of Human Science), pp. 110 - 113

Langford ME, 2016, 'Sohrab Shahid Saless: An Iranian Filmmaker in Berlin', Screening the Past, http://www.screeningthepast.com/2016/12/sohrab-shahid-saless-an-iranian-filmmaker-in-berlin/

Langford ME, 2012, 'Tending the Wounds of the Nation: Gender in Contemporary Iranian War Cinema', Screening the Past, http://www.screeningthepast.com/2012/12/tending-the-wounds-of-the-nation-gender-in-contemporary-iranian-war-cinema/

Langford ME, 2010, 'Pasiones y edades de Schroeter', Cahiers du Cinema Rencentres Internationales supplement, 33, pp. XXIV - XXV, http://www.caimanediciones.es/sumario_num33.html

Langford ME, 2010, 'Practical Melodrama: From Recognition to Action in Tahmineh Milani's Fereshteh Trilogy', Screen, 51, pp. 341 - 364, http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/51/4/341.abstract

Langford M, 2009, 'Teaching ethnic diversity with film: Essays and resources for educators in history, social studies, literature and film studies', Journal of Popular Film and Television, 37, pp. 148 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01956050903218182

Langford ME, 2007, 'Allegory and the Aesthetics of Becoming-Woman in Marziyeh Meshkini`s The Day I Became a Woman', Camera Obscura, 64, pp. 1 - 41

Langford ME, 2007, 'Iran and its Others: Locating Cultural Diversity in Iranian Cinema', International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, 6, pp. 151 - 158

Langford ME, 2007, 'The Hollywood System', Australasian Journal of American Studies, 26(1), pp. 95 - 109

Langford ME, 2003, 'Alexander Kluge', Senses of Cinema, http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/kluge.html

Langford ME, 2003, 'Werner Schroeter', Senses of Cinema, http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/schroeter.html

Conference Presentations

Langford ME, 2010, 'Dissimulating Dissent: ‘Honest Shadows’ in Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly (2009)', presented at Cinema, Modernity, Modernism FHAANZ, UNSW, Sydney, 30 November 2010 - 03 December 2010

Langford ME, 2008, 'Practical Melodrama: Private Lives and Public Space in Tahmineh Milani’s ‘Fereshteh’ Trilogy', presented at Visual Representations of Iran, University of St Andrews, 13 June 2008 - 16 June 2008

Langford ME, 2006, 'Iran and its Others: Locating Cultural Diversity in Iranian Cinema', presented at Transformations Conference 2006: Cultural and the Environment in Human Development, Australian National University, 27 November 2006 - 29 November 2006

Langford ME, 2006, 'Hidden Histories and Multiple Reactions: Past, Present and Future in the Films of Tahmineh Milani', presented at Telling Stories: The XIIIth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association, Melbourne, 16 November 2006 - 19 November 2006

Langford ME, 2005, 'Becoming-Bodies in Iranian Cinema(s): Majid Majidi’s Baran', presented at Imagining Iran: A Symposium on Iranian Cinema,, School of Media, Film and Theatre, University of NSW, 18 November 2005

Langford ME, 2005, 'Negotiating the Sacred Body in Iranian Cinema', presented at Negotiating the Sacred 2 Centre for Cross-Cultural Communication,, ANU, 03 November 2005 - 04 November 2005

Langford ME, 2005, 'Lola and the Vampire: Technologies of Time and Movement in German Cinema', presented at Cinema and Technology, Lancaster University, 06 April 2005 - 09 April 2005

Reports

Langford ME, 2011, A Year of Triumph and Tragedy: Iranian Cinema and the First Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA), Senses of Cinema of Incorporated, http://sensesofcinema.com/2011/festival-reports/a-year-of-triumph-and-tragedy-iranian-cinema-and-the-first-iranian-film-festival-australia-iffa-2/

Langford ME, 2009, Displaced Allegories: post-revolutionary Iranian cinema, Senses of Cinema of Incorporated

Langford ME, 2009, Teaching ethnic diversity with film, Heldref Publications

Langford ME, 2007, `Shadows, specters, shards`: Making history in avant-garde film, Journal Film Video

Langford ME, 2007, Iranian Cinema Looks Inward: The 25th Fajr International Film Festival, Senses of Cinema of Incorporated, http://sensesofcinema.com/2007/festival-reports/fajr-iff-2007/


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