Walter Rankin is the Deputy Dean for the School of Continuing Studies at Georgetown University. He has taught film, culture, language, and literature courses at Georgetown, George Washington, George Mason, and Hampton Universities. He is the author of Grimm Pictures: Fairy Tale Archetypes in Eight Horror and Suspense Films and has written chapters for anthologies on Guillermo del Toro, The Exorcist, and Gothic literature. 
In the following examples of straight bodyguard/gay apprentice works, we see a progression in the level of violence from the bodyguard and apprentice alike as suppressed homoerotic yearnings overtake traditional[…]
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Defoe’s classic translates surprisingly well to outer space in this 1960s gem
