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Digital Folklore: MARBLE HORNETS, the Slender Man, and the Emergence of Folk Horror in Online Communities

This thesis examines Marble Hornets as an example of an emerging trend in digital, online cinema that it defines as “folk horror”: a subgenre of horror that is produced by online communities of everyday people – or folk – as opposed to professional crews working within the film industry. (Preview image by Eric Knudsen)

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