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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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Life Lessons with Tod Browning's DRACULA

I decided to write an essay on Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931), but after trying to find something intelligent to write about it (that hadn’t already been written about, that is), I came up short. Or more specifically, I couldn’t stop thinking about the life lessons I learned from the film. So, instead of writing an essay this month, I’m sharing “10 Life Lessons I Learned from Dracula”.

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