In this Season Seven Finale, Garret Castleberry hosts a leadership quorum comprised of students completing the Special Topics in Media Studies course emphasizing "Communicating Fears in Film". To facilitate a roundtable discussion on season seven, contributors were provided a set of course-related prompts to prepare for a hybridized  media production/oral final. While every response or answer holds value, our LIVE roundtable special does represent an abridged attempt to spotlight high points closely linked to their course experiences. Ultimately, we consider the episode a "director's cut" finale that provides formal closure--while also leaving the door open to future opportunities--to this horror (and horror-adjacent) season of Special Topics in Media.    

Hosts: Garret Castleberry

Guest Critics: Reese Cusiter, Beau Johnson, Cloie Mitchell, Jeremi Abonnel, DaRaun Clarke

Producers: Garret Castleberry, Will McMurry (Audio Engineer), Alli Garner (Cover Art), Austin Foster (Music)

Recommended readings paired with Season Seven "Communicating Fears in Film":
Kendall Phillips. Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture. Praeger, 2006.

Stephen Prince. Apocalypse Cinema. Rutgers University Press, 2021.

Murray Leeder. Horror Film: A Critical Introduction. Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018.

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