Author Lindsay Hallam

Lindsay Hallam

Lindsay Hallam is a Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of East London. She is the author of the book Screening the Marquis de Sade: Pleasure, Pain and the Transgressive Body in Film (McFarland 2012), and has directed the documentary Fridey at the Hydey. She has contributed to the collections Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), Dracula's Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film (Scarecrow Press, 2013), Fragmented Nightmares: Transnational Horror Across Visual Media (Routledge, 2014), Critical Insights: Violence in Literature (Salem Press, 2014), and the journals Asian Cinema, and Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies.

May the Giant Be With You: Twin Peaks Season Two, Episode One and the Television Auteur

Lindsay Hallam

July 2016

"I'll See You in 25 Years": The Return of Twin Peaks and Television Aesthetics

This paper argues for a concept of auteur television, in which the director expresses a consistency of style and theme that is similar to their other work, using David Lynch and Twin Peaks as a case study. This...

Whips and Bodies: The Sadean Cinematic Text

Lindsay Hallam

February 2004

Perversion

Hallam examines the paradigms of sadism and masochism and traces their dramatisation in cinema.