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Kit MacFarlaneAbout Kit MacFarlane Kit MacFarlane has a PhD in English Literature, Film and Popular Culture, and teaches English as a freelance academic. He writes cultural criticism, commentary and relentless tirades, and has published regular cultural and higher education commentary in Australian media. Off-the-clock, he shouts at the TV incessantly. Features
Star Trek’s Lost Legacy of Literary PretensionWhat's a Kirk without Earth-poet Shakespeare? Has the awkward Star Trek quotation spat its last breath? Trek's lost legacy of literary pretension. [22 May 2009] Who Needs an Oscar Anyway?: Mickey Rourke’s HomeboyDismissed as too depressing in 1988, Mickey Rourke's self-penned turn in Homeboy brings an aura of sorrow more nuanced and poetic than that of his celebrated performance in The Wrestler. [6 May 2009] Columns
The Prisoner: ‘Fall Out’The Prisoner's unapologetic payoff of surrealism and absurdism heads into that artistic realm where meaning is defined more by resonance than by immediately identifiable relevance. [12 November 2009] (more Retro Remote) Pete Kelly’s BluesJack Webb's glum radio series 'Pete Kelly's Blues' is a sigh of a tribute to the roaring '20s, a melancholic parade of blistering jazz and the pointlessness of its own nostalgia. [20 October 2009] (more Retro Remote) The Frontier Doctor’s Fancy ‘Queen of the Cimarron’Frontier Doctor's church-prescribing gumdrop-toting hero comes face to face with the unthinkable: a tough-talkin' hard-done bad-girl with money on her mind (gulp). [23 September 2009] (more Retro Remote) All in the Family: Gloria Sings the BluesWhere a thousand stone-faced social dramas have despaired over the decay of interpersonal relations and marital unity, this is the interpersonal angst of an Ingmar Bergman movie saved by a sitcom ending and a live studio audience. [27 August 2009] (more Retro Remote) In the Wrestling Ring with Ric Flair, Where ‘Evil is the Natural Climate’Ric Flair epitomizes Roland Barthes' 'perfect bastard', adopting a cowardly and devious state of jerkdom, elevating his coarse existence into some quasi-mythological state of being. [21 July 2009] (more Retro Remote) ‘Have Gun - Will Travel’: Return to Fort BenjaminWith attempted justifications of military torture on our minds, Retro Remote heads back to the '50s TV Western to find a surprisingly tough moral stance on the U.S. military's destruction of human dignity and dehumanisation of 'enemy combatants'. [18 June 2009] (more Retro Remote) Gidget’s ‘Dear Diary—et al.’ – and All that May ImplyAs things start getting a little steamy, Retro Remote 'sinks into nothingness' trying to mix Gidget and some serious film theory. [8 May 2009] (more Retro Remote) |
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