Daniel Fairfax (1982) is an Australian film scholar. He is an assistant professor of film studies at the Goethe Universität-Frankfurt. His research focuses on French film theory in the post-1968 period. He contributed to the publication of Cinema against Spectacle: Technique and Ideology by Jean-Louis Comolli (2015) and co-edited Conversations with Christian Metz: Selected Interviews on Film Theory (1970–1991) (2017). In 2019, he compiled the anthology One Hundred Years of Soviet Cinema. His next publication The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968–1973) appeared in 2021. He is also an editor for the Australian online film journal Senses of Cinema.