
Dr Lindsay Anne Hallam
BA Film Programme Leader
Programme Leader
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.
TEACHING
MODULES
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)
Publications
Browse past publications by year.
Full publications list
Visit the research repository to view a full list of publications
- From a Dark Place: Indigenous Australian Horror in: Çakırlar, C. (ed.) Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, and Cultural Politics. Liverpool University Press, pp.In Press
- The Euro-Vampire in: Bacon, S. (ed.) The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.485-505
- Predators Far and Near: The Sadean Gothic in Penny Dreadful in: Grossman, J. and Scheibel, W. (ed.) Penny Dreadful and Adaptation: Reanimating and Transforming the Monster. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp.217–232
- "So You've Taken Someone Else's Nostalgia": Trauma, Nostalgia, and American Hero Stories in: Morton, D. (ed.) After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen. University Press of Mississippi, pp.225-236