Perhaps video essays are like pornography in that, as the saying goes, you know it when you see it. But what distinguishes a video essay from a short film and what are the ground rules for this ...

Near the end of 2023, a popular YouTube creator known as hbomberguy released a video on plagiarism — a topic often confined to conversations in composition classrooms. The four-hour video, “Plagiarism ...

For the last few years, video essays have gained more and more prominence on YouTube. With more and more creators choosing a video essay — or video essay-inspired — format, there are video essays ...

As you move through the application process, one of the most important aspects is telling your personal and professional story as fully and authentically as possible. Each part of the application ...

We write a lot about video essays. A lot. As fans of pop culture, it can be fun for us to see someone take a deep, obsessive dive into a film, TV show, pop culture trend, or genre. But, what if video ...

This is not exactly a post about how to teach the video essay (or the audiovisual essay, or the essay video, or the scholarly video). At the end I share some resources for those interested in teaching ...