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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · 19d

New issue launched with 11 new video essays on a range of topics, including four focused on eco-criticism and animal studies! Spread the word:
intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1672/i...

[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 3(12) General Issue + Monographic Section on Ecocriticism and Animal Studies (2025)

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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · Jun 11

New issue is live, with 8 new video essays on topics ranging from Mulholland Drive to Abraham Lincoln on film to crocheting in horror cinema to women's labor in Latin American film to the Star Wipe! Check them out and spread the word!

[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 2(12) (2025)

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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · Mar 23

New issue is now published, featuring 8 new video essays on topics ranging from gestures & gender in Hollywood to transcultural fandom; videotapes as memory devices to women in New Turkish Cinema. Enjoy and spread the word!
intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1427/i...

[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 1(12) (2025)

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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · Dec 12

Brand new issue up with 10 video essays!!! Check them out:
intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1295/i...

[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 4(11) (2024)

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · Nov 18

Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

Scholarship in Sound & Image

Workshop on Videographic Criticism

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · Nov 10

There wasn't a good list of accounts related to video essays - so I made this starter pack! Who did I miss? Who do you know who should join Bluesky to share & talk about video essays?
go.bsky.app/PtthhCc

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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · Sep 25

Fabulous new special issue just published on Women & Aging, edited by Barbara Zecchi! Excellent new video essays by her and 8 other contributors: Alison Peirse, Rose Steptoe, Colleen Laird, Libertad Gills, Sadia Shepard, Dayna McLeod, Nilanjana Bhattacharjya & Nam Lee!

[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 3(11) Special Issue: Women and Aging (2024)

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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · Jun 19

New issue is live! 8 new video essays on a wide range of topics, including:
- Bo Burnham's INSIDE
- Frankenstein across history
- subtitling in Indian film
- masculinity in Guillermo del Toro's films
- recordings of police violence
- the color green in horror genre

and more! Spread the word!

[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 2(11) (2024)

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Mar 18

The first issue of @intransition.bsky.social published by OLH is out! Check out the OLH launch issue featuring seven video essays, including two retrospectives on the journal's early history a decade ago:
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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · Mar 17

Home from a fabulous #scms24 conference! Top highlight: a huge crowd to re-launch @intransition.bsky.social on @openlibhums.bsky.social!
Check out the new issue featuring 7 video essays, including two retrospectives on the journal's early history a decade ago (& my piece about #TheRehearsal !)

[in]Transition | Issue: Issue: 1(11) OLH Launch Issue (2024)

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · Feb 19

Huge news going public in my world, as I've been working on this project for the past year. @intransition.bsky.social will officially launch on @openlibhums.bsky.social at the SCMS conference in March!

[in]Transition joins the Open Library of Humanities

We are delighted to announce that [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies has joined the Open Library of Humanities. The journal launched in 2014 in collaboration with ...

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · Dec 6

Do you want to learn how to make video essays in a fun immersive two-week workshop this June? Applications for the 2024 Scholarship in Sound & Image workshop at Middlebury College are now open! Check it out at sites.middlebury.edu/videoworkshop/ and spread the word!

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Workshop on Videographic Criticism

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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · Oct 27

Just published! Issue 10.3 of [in]Transition, a special issue on 'Feminist Videographic Diptychs' featuring 6 new videos! Conceived, produced and edited by Prof Catherine Fowler of the University of Otago, New Zealand: mediacommons.org/intransition...

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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · Sep 8

The news dropped on that other site, but should be shared here too!

Dr Caroline Edwards
@the_blochian
Bit of a soft launch announcement from @filmstudiesff
here at #JanewayOA23 that the award-winning journal @inTransitionCMS
is migrating over to @openlibhums
& relaunching in 2024! 🤩🤩🤩
9:44 AM · Sep 8, 2023

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[in]Transition @intransition.bsky.social · Aug 23

Our newest issue is a massive collection of twelve excellent and innovative pieces of peer-reviewed videographic work! Check it out and share your favorite pieces!

Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 10.2, 2023 | [in]Transition

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