Dr Kit MacFarlane

Dr Kit MacFarlane

Lecturer

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Kit is a lecturer in the School of Humanities and has published research, criticism, pop culture analysis and short fiction in publications such as Senses of Cinema, New Writing, Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice, Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, Transformations, Metro, The Australian, The Weekend Australian Review, The Punch, New Matilda and The Conversation, as well as a regular column on pop culture history for a number of years for online magazine PopMatters. Kit’s main interests lie in exploring popular culture and television history.

Film, Television and Pop Culture history and analysis

Year Citation
2022 MacFarlane, K. (2022). Alien in Australia: science fiction, refugee politics and the stranger. Metro, (211), 110-115.
2021 MacFarlane, K. (2021). Hidden forces childhood, commerce and cost in Granaz Moussavi's when pomegranates howl. Metro, (209), 28-31.
2021 MacFarlane, K. (2021). Hidden forces: childhood, commerce and cost in Granaz Moussavi's When Pomegranates Howl. Metro, (209), 28-31.
2019 MacFarlane, K. (2019). Cinema for claustrophiles: virtual reality at the Adelaide film festival and beyond. Metro magazine: media & education magazine, (200), 128-135.
2019 MacFarlane, K. (2019). Hitting the right note: Janine Hosking's 'the eulogy' and the perils of praise. Metro magazine: media & education magazine, (201), 90-95.
2018 MacFarlane, K. (2018). A neoliberal spin: management and masculinity in Stephen McCallum's 1%. Metro magazine, (198), 8-14.
2017 MacFarlane, K. (2017). Impoliteness and destruction in the encapsulating frame: Lynette Wallworth's 'Collisions' and virtual reality. Metro magazine: media & education magazine, (192), 78-81.
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2016 MacFarlane, K. (2016). The tyranny of the unspoken: the silences, autoethnography and mental health. Metro magazine, (188), 82-85.
2016 MacFarlane, K. (2016). 'A Certain Blind Look': Zizek's 'absolute undecidability' in Joseph Conrad's 'The Duel' and Ridley Scott's The Duellists. Senses of cinema, (79).
2014 Petrescu, I., MacFarlane, K., & Ranzijn, R. (2014). Psychological effects of poetry workshops with people with early stage dementia: an exploratory study. Dementia, 13(2), 207-215.
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2014 MacFarlane, K. (2014). Spirits of affirmation: the Darkside. Metro magazine: media & education magazine, (180), 100-103.
2013 MacFarlane, K. (2013). Against unremembering: David King's 'Purge'. Metro magazine: media & education magazine, (178), 14-16.
2012 MacFarlane, K. (2012). The Slap: the heavy hand of a hard-hitting drama. Metro magazine: media & education magazine, (171), 32-37.
2012 MacFarlane, K. (2012). Stooges from space: 'Iron Sky' and the pursuit of lowbrow propaganda. Metro magazine: media & education magazine, (173), 34-37.
2012 MacFarlane, K. (2012). A sport, a tradition, a religion, a joke: the need for a poetics of in-ring storytelling and a reclamation of professional wrestling as a global art. Asiatic, 6(2), 136-155.
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2011 MacFarlane, K. (2011). Unplugging the affective domain: can 'slow spaces' really improve the value of cultural literacy?. Transformations, 20(5), 1-13.
2011 MacFarlane, K. (2011). 'You must survive': 'mother fish' and the narrative of suffering. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, (167), 16-20.
2011 MacFarlane, K. (2011). An idea too many in 'the human resources manager'. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, (168), 38-40.
2011 MacFarlane, K. (2011). Blame: revenge served warm. Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, (169), 8-12.
- MacFarlane, K. (n.d.). The Tyranny of the Unspoken <i>The Silences</i>, Autoethnography and Mental Health. METRO, (188), 83-85.
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Year Citation
2025 MacFarlane, K. (2025). What did Australians watch on TV on Christmas Eve 1960?.
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2025 MacFarlane, K. (2025). Why Hollywood’s first iconic Phantom of the Opera film is still puzzling us, 100 years on.
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2024 MacFarlane, K. (2024). Medic at 70: long before Meredith Grey or Doogie Howser, this show shaped the modern medical drama.
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2024 MacFarlane, K. (2024). The Christmas album that heralded the end of a folk musical era: The Kingston Trio’s The Last Month of the Year.
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2023 MacFarlane, K. (2023). Richard II by William Shakespeare: why 'the divine right of kings' (still) matters. The Conversation.
2023 MacFarlane, K. (2023). Smashing records (and chairs): why pro wrestling is having a moment both in Australia and overseas. The Conversation.
2019 MacFarlane, K. (2019). What Australia watched on TV on New Year's Eve, 1959. The Conversation.

Courses I teach

  • COMM 1045 Creative Writing Workshop (2025)
  • COMM 1061 Creative Writing and Literature: An Introduction (2025)
  • LANG 2042 Reworking the Canon (2025)
  • LANG 3042 The Writer's World (2025)
  • LANG 3042 The Writer's World (2024)

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