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Michelle Orange

Michelle Orange is the author of This Is Running for Your Life: Essays (2013). She lives in New York, USA.

Fan Letter , Music
The Animal Power of Courtney Love

‘The way she stumbled on stage, with her smeared lips and perfect legs, appeared at once criminally affected and wildly persuasive’

BY Michelle Orange |
Opinion
Pity the Punk Historian: How to Capture a Moment Designed to Self-Destruct?

A spate of new films propose a reckoning between punk artistry and documentary portraiture

BY Michelle Orange |
Opinion
Recent Iranian Films Challenge the Stereotype of Movie-Making in a Repressive Country

Michelle Orange traces the recent history of Iranian films, from Jafar Pahahi’s Taxi (2015) to Mani Haghighi’s Pig (2018)

BY Michelle Orange |
Opinion
Portrayals of Women in Film and TV are Abandoning Old Archetypes

From Better Things to Motherhood and SMILF: Michelle Orange charts the turn towards nuanced representations of women in film and TV

BY Michelle Orange |
Opinion
Ladies and Gentlemen

Should acting awards be gender neutral? 

BY Michelle Orange |
Opinion
Wonder Women

This year’s Sundance Film Festival featured more movies directed by women than ever before, but gender discrimination in the industry is still endemic

BY Michelle Orange |