Article: Video essay, videographic criticism, polymedial essayism, polymodal essayism
Abstract
I propose that, as a video essayist, when I orchestrate an essayistic audiovisual narrative using multiple units of meaning potential in written and spoken word, still and moving images, sound and music, and other such building blocks of a communicative entity, I practice polymedial essayism. Authors of video essays of all kinds – say, YouTube video essays, TikTok video essays, academic video essays, explainer videos, science videos – on all subjects in all disciplines, even subjects that does not involve analysing audiovisual media, and producers of even audio essays, are practitioners of polymedial essayism; the practice can also be called polymodal essayism.
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Sekar, Sureshkumar: Video essay, videographic criticism, polymedial essayism, polymodal essayism. In: NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 13 (2024), Nr. 1, S. 51-73. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22831.
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author = {Sekar, Sureshkumar},
title = {Video essay, videographic criticism, polymedial essayism, polymodal essayism},
year = 2024,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22831}",
volume = 13,
address = {Marburg},
journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
number = 1,
pages = {51--73},
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author = {Sekar, Sureshkumar},
title = {Video essay, videographic criticism, polymedial essayism, polymodal essayism},
year = 2024,
doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22831}",
volume = 13,
address = {Marburg},
journal = {NECSUS_European Journal of Media Studies},
number = 1,
pages = {51--73},
}
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