Lindsay Hallam is Course Leader of BA (Hons) Film and Screen Studies. She is also an author, freelance film journalist, filmmaker and podcaster. 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 Liverpool University Press and is one of several different pieces she has written about Lynch's work in film and TV. She is currently working on a monograph on Australian horror cinema.
Lindsay also writes outside of academia, for publications such as Sight & Sound, The Conversation and the BFI, and provides extras such as essays and audio commentaries for Blu-Ray releases from Arrow, Radiance, Second Sight, Severin Films and Umbrella. She co-hosts SciFrights, a movie discussion podcast that explores horror and Science Fiction cinema.
Lindsay has also produced short films and directed a documentary, Fridey at the Hydey (2013), and a music video. They Called Me David (2021), a horror/SF short film that she directed and produced, premiered at Frightfest London in August 2021 and has since screened at festivals around the world and is now available to watch on Arrow Player.
LinksWebsite: https://lindsayhallam5.wixsite.com/websiteInstagram: @thehorribledoctorhallamBluesky: @lindsayhallam.bsky.socialSciFrights Podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/scifrights/
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