Author Alanna Thain

Alanna Thain

Alanna Thain is associate professor of World Cinemas and Cultural Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. She directs the Moving Image Research Laboratory, dedicated to the study of the body in moving image media, and home to Cinema Out of the Box, a bicycle powered mobile cinema staging guerrilla screenings in the urban ecology of Montreal. She is also director of the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. Her research focuses on time and embodiment in cinema, media and performance. Her book Bodies in Time: Suspense, Affect and Cinema is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press in 2016.

One Way Out Between Two Worlds: The Dance Moves of Twin Peaks

Alanna Thain

July 2016

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

David Lynch is a filmmaker who holds a special place for dance in his movies. Images of dancers and outbreaks of aberrant movement abound in his work. In Eraserhead (1977), the Lady in the Radiator’s sly and sq...