Kit MacFarlane

Kit MacFarlane has a PhD in English Literature, Film and Popular Culture, with a thesis that covers topics from Euripides, H. G. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe to John Huston, Lon Chaney and Batman (all stitched together with Douglas Hofstdter, Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Lacan). He also writes cultural criticism, commentary and relentless tirades, with occasional diversions into fiction and academic analysis, and has published regular cultural and higher education commentary in Australian media. He spends the rest of the time teaching English, film and media as a freelance academic. His main cultural interest lies in exploring resonances between traditional literature and popular culture. Even when off the clock, he continues this noble endeavor by shouting at the TV incessantly.

Go Play in Traffic: 5 Movies About Kids That Are Better Than ‘Hugo’ and ‘True Grit’

Kafka Noir: ‘The Sickroom’ and ‘A Country Doctor’

Tough Guys Recite: The 5 Best Poetry Spittin’ TV Characters

The Thing (2011): Bringing Quiet Tones and Space Vaginas Back from the ’80s

Jean-Teddy Filippe’s ‘Forbidden Files’: Found Footage Lost (and Found Again)

WWE’s Heels: the Jerks, Cowards and Miscreants vs. Corporate Hedonism

Robot Dreams: What ‘Transformers’ Can Learn from ‘Sex Kittens Go to College’

Killing Osama bin Laden and David Mamet’s Special Ops Drama, ‘The Unit’

Betty Boop and Bimbo Get Into a Sexual Tangle in ‘Barnacle Bill’

Homophobia Is Alive and Well on TV at the WWE

What ‘La Femme Nikita’ Has to Say about Egypt and Former President Hosni Mubarek

Frankie Goes to Hollywood & Gets There Behind the ‘Wheel’ of a Classic Commodore 64