Dr Lindsay Hallam
Senior Lecturer
Moving Image Research Centre (MIRC), Media and Screen, Programme Leader
Department of Media, Fashion & Communications , School of Arts and Creative Industries
Lindsay Hallam is co-Programme Leader of the BA Film course. She teaches across many modules, in the areas of film theory, film history, and film production.
Areas Of Interest
- Horror cinema
- Cult cinema
- Australian cinema
- The works of David Lynch
- Gender and the body
- Trauma and history
OVERVIEW
Lindsay Hallam is a Senior Lecturer in Film, currently at the University of East London. She is an author, freelance film journalist and filmmaker. Lindsay has been teaching Film and Media, both theory and practice, for over 15 years. She received her doctorate from Curtin University, which formed the basis of her first book, Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film, published by McFarland in 2012. She has also written for several peer-reviewed journals and anthologies about different aspects of horror cinema.
Her second book, on David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, is part of the Devil's Advocates series from Auteur Press, and is one of several different pieces she has written about Lynch's work in film and TV. Lindsay also writes outside of academia, for publications such as Sight & Sound and The Conversation, and provides essays and extras for Blu-Ray releases.
Her latest film, They Called Me David, is a horror short film that premiered at Frightfest and was selected for festivals around the world.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Lindsay has researched extensively in the area of horror studies, exploring many different areas to do with the body, gender, trauma, national identity, colonialism, and race, applying different theoretical methodologies across different media forms. She has been published in several peer-reviewed journal and edited collections on topics such as female vampires, torture porn and post-9/11 trauma, desktop horror, mad science films, Italian horror, Australian eco-horror, and the television series Twin Peaks.
Lindsay has published two books, Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film, which was based on her PhD and released in 2012, and Devil's Advocates: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, which came out in September, 2018.
She is currently working on a monograph on Australian horror cinema.
To see the full list of Lindsay's publications, visit Lindsay's personal website.
PUBLICATIONS
- “From a Dark Place: Indigenous Australian Horror”, in Transnational Horror, Folklore, and Cultural Politics, edited by Cüneyt Çakirlar, Liverpool University Press, forthcoming.
- “Predators Far and Near: The Sadean Gothic in Penny Dreadful”, in Penny Dreadful and Adaptation, edited by Julie Grossman & Will Scheibel, Palgrave, 2023.
- “’So, you’ve taken someone else’s Nostalgia’: Trauma, Nostalgia and American Hero Stories”, in After Midnight: Analyzing the Post-Watchmen Sequels, edited by Drew Morton, University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
- “Digital Witness: Found Footage and Desktop Horror as Post-Cinematic Experience” in New Blood: Framing Horror in the 21st Century, edited by Eddie Falvely, Joe Hickinbottom and Jonathan Wroot, University of Wales Press, 2020.
- "Down Under Rises Up: Nature's Revenge in Ozploitation Cinema", Cine-Excess Journal, Issue 4, May 2020. Lindsay Hallam.
- "Drink Full and Descend: The Horror of Twin Peaks: The Return", New American Notes Online, Issue 15, February 2020. Lindsay Hallam.
- "The Atrocity Exhibition", Sight and Sound, February 2020. Lindsay Hallam.
- "Women's Films: Melodrama and Women's Trauma in the Films of David Lynch", in Women of Lynch, edited by David Bushman and Scott Ryan. Lindsay Hallam. 2019.
- Devil's Advocate - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Lindsay Hallam. 2018. Auteur Press.
- Touching the Colour and Sound of Your Body's Tears: Affect and Homage in the Neo-Giallo. Lindsay Hallam. 2017. 16:9.
- 'Why are there always three?': The Gothic Occult in Dario Argento's Three Mothers Trilogy. Lindsay Hallam. 2017. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Volume 5, Number 2.
- May the Giant Be With You: Twin Peaks Season 2, Episode 1 and the Television Auteur. Lindsay Hallam. 2016. Senses of Cinema, July 2016.
- Dr. de Sade: A Sadean Approach to Representations of Mad Science in Horror Cinema. Lindsay Hallam. 2014. Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Nightmares. Routledge.
- Kill Lists: Sade, Cinema and the Language of the Torturer. Lindsay Hallam. 2014. Critical Insights: Violence in Literature. Salem Press.
- A Beautiful Life of Evil and Hate: The Vampire-Witch in Mario Bava's Black Sunday. Lindsay Hallam. 2014. Dracula's Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film. Salem Press..
- Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film. Lindsay Anne Hallam. 2012. McFarland.
- Genre Cinema as Trauma Cinema: Post 9/11 Trauma and the Rise of 'Torture Porn' in Recent Horror Films. Lindsay Hallam. 2010. Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
TEACHING
BA (Hons) Film
We combine theory and practice - teaching you how to make films and delve into all aspects of the film world, from screenwriting to cinema history.
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MA Filmmaking
Our innovative and strikingly diverse postgraduate course equips you to integrate the theory and practice of film, video and new screen media at an advanced level.
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Module Leader for:
- Aesthetics & Technologies - Film
- Cinema of Affect
- Film History
Module Lecturer on:
- Critical Theory
- Documentary 2
- Agency 1
- Agency 2
- European & World Cinema
- Documentary Cinema (MA)
- Audio Vision: Analysis of Sound and Vision in Media (MA)