Matthew Monagle

Why have we seen such a surge in horror film festivals in the twenty-first century? In this paper, I examine the potential of the horror film festival as a site of subcultural capital for horror filmmakers and audiences as well as an important intersection of formal and informal channels of distribution.

More than any other player in league history, Ty Cobb stands as an example of 'old' baseball, the game before it was integrated or family friendly. This paper examines the 1994 biopic Cobb and compares the film to the subsequent controversy surrounding its historical accuracy.

In 1951, Howard Hawks's The Thing From Another World both helped kick off a new wave of atomic-era science fiction cinema and provided the template for an enduring onscreen conflict between science and the military. This paper compares the original screenplay of The Thing to its film version and explores the changes that Dr. Arthur Carrington - the film's head scientist - underwent in the process.

Excerpt: "In examining how both versions of Maniac ask their audiences to respond to the subjective perspective of its schizophrenic antihero—and the ergodic concepts of immersion and control this perspective elicits—we might places these films in their proper context as two of the more innovative horror films from the last fifty years. "

An examination of the ways in which Hollywood used the concept of the auteur to defend against the increasing threat of censorship due to violence in cinema. This paper specifically examines the history and critical reception of Peter Bogdanovich's 1968 film Targets.