Video Essay Journals
- AUDIOVISUALCY: Videographic Film and Moving Image StudiesAn online forum for video essays or works of audovisual screen studies that have an analytical, critical, reflexive or scholarly purpose; fully attribute all sources used; are made according to Fair Use principles; are non-commercial in nature.
- BACKDORAn album devoted to collecting a particular group of videos by AUDIOVISUALCY makers and moderators that were taken down suddenly by the online publisher that originally commissioned them.
- [in]Transition - peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studiesCollaboration between MediaCommons and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ official publication, Cinema Journal – is the first peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies, and is fully open access with no fees to publish or read.
Practitioners of these forms (which include, inter alia, the ‘video essay’, ‘audiovisual essay’, and ‘visual essay’ formats) explore the ways in which digital technologies afford a new mode of carrying out and presenting film and moving image research. The full range of digital technologies now enables film and media scholars to write using the very materials that constitute their objects of study: moving images and sounds. - European Journal of Media Studies NECSUS is an international, double blind peer-reviewed journal of media studies connected to NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies) and published by Amsterdam University Press. The journal is multidisciplinary and strives to bring together the best work in the field of media studies across the humanities and social sciences. We aim to publish research that matters and that improves the understanding of media and culture inside and outside the academic community.
- The Place of Voiceover in Academic Audiovisual Film and Television Criticism (2016)
The line between academic and non-scholarly videographic film criticism by Ian Garwood, published European Journal of Media Studies December 4, 2016 - Journal of Embodied Research Journal of Embodied Research is the first peer-reviewed, open access, academic journal to focus specifically on the innovation and dissemination of embodied knowledge through the medium of video. With an editorial advisory board drawn from across the arts and humanities, it aims to pioneer the scholarly video article as a new form supporting development of diverse embodied research projects.
- THE AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY: Practice and Theory of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies. Online repository for the papers, discussions and screening programme of an international conference and workshop on The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory
Video Essay Channels
- 100 Years of Cinema It has been just over 100 years since the first Hollywood feature film. 100 Years of Cinema examines one film a year, to try and discover how we got from the simple films of the early 1900's to the complex block busters of today.
- Criterion Collection Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. Over the years, as we moved from laserdisc to DVD, Blu-ray disc, and online streaming, we've seen a lot of things change, but one thing has remained constant: our commitment to publishing the defining moments of cinema for a wider and wider audience.
- The Discarded Image The Discarded Image is an online video series that deconstructs well known pieces of cinema. https://www.patreon.com/thediscardedimage
- Every Frame a Painting Every Frame a Painting was a series of video essays about film form, made from April 2014 to September 2016, by Taylor Ramos and Tony Zhou. We officially announced the end of the channel in December 2017.
- Fandor Film festival updates, movie news and features from Keyframe, Fandor's online film journal.
- FIlm Maker IQ FilmmakerIQ is a free film school. Founded in 2008 by Dennis Hartwig and John P. Hess, FilmmakerIQ has been a depository of useful and important online articles. With the addition of the free film school which explores filmmaking topics in a unique and in depth way, FilmmakerIQ is leading the discussion on filmmaking among active industry professionals and the film community on whole.
- Kevin B Lee Filmmaker and critic who has made over 350 video essays exploring film and media
- Lessons from the Screenplay Examines the techniques used to tell great stories through videos that analyze movie scripts.
- Nerdwriter The Nerdwriter is a weekly video essay series that puts ideas to work.
- Now You See It Now You See It explores film themes and tropes. It's like a college film analysis class minus the lecture halls, essay assignments, and student loan debts.
- This Guy Edits Sven is an A.C.E. Award nominated editor who cut for James Cameron, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and James Franco.