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Very happy that this article by @jamesmacdowell.bsky.social is finally out in public to join the small, but growing, scholarship about the YouTube video essay.
It's OA: doi.org/10.1080/1050...
A screenshot of an academic article, written by James MacDowell, titled "Breaking and Making the Fourth Wall on YouTube: Direct Address and Audiovisual Narration in Online Video", published in the journal "Quarterly Review of Film and Video".
March 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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My three main-takeaways from this year's Video Essay Poll (2024) on @sightsoundmag.bsky.social, as analyzed by @queline.bsky.social, @willwebbful.bsky.social and @cydniiwilde.bsky.social. Thank you for your great work this year!
A screenshot of the 2024 Sight and Sound video essay poll with the following section highlighted: "Interestingly, while YouTube was the most common publication method (70 uploads to Vimeo's 56), Vimeo-published videos collected more total nominations (99) than YouTube (90). The average runtime continues to increase year by year, reaching 30 minutes in 2024." A screenshot of the 2024 Sight and Sound video essay poll with the following section highlighted: "Our longest submission this year, Jenny Nicholson's The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel, has a few close competitors from the YouTube space, including Contrapoints' Twilight retrospective and the aforementioned Hbomberguy epic." A screenshot of the 2024 video essay poll. A section about "Plagiarism and You(Tube" by Hbomberguy (Harry Bewis): It reads "Released at the end of 2023 (and therefore just missing the deadline for inclusion in last year's poll), this nearly four-hour epic reverberated throughout 2024, bringing to light issues about citation practices on YouTube that had been brewing for years. Considered by this year's voters to be a "mic-drop" moment (Sam Kern) and "one of the most influential and important video essays of recent years" (Ariel Avissar), Brewis's essay may very well become a foundational text for YouTube video essayists moving forward."
December 20, 2024 at 12:26 PM