James MacDowell
'The Lesser Feat' on YouTube. Warwick University film/media scholar & video essayist. Researching YouTube aesthetics, irony & intention. Unionize. Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thelesserfeat6298
@katherinegroo.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
@cinementalist.bsky.social
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
@smittermeier.bsky.social
Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. “Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Very bisexual. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
@aca-media.bsky.social
A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies https://aca-media.org/
@dril.bsky.social
Never Bullshit I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate . https://www.patreon.com/dril https://www.instagram.com/dril_real https://linktr.ee/drilreal
@jegleggott.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, Northumbria University.
@dearstefania.bsky.social
media studies scholar. motha. friend. wrote a book on Teen TV (2021, Routledge). still working on that book on women showrunners.
@sayshatim.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Film and Media Studies at George Mason U. Check out my book Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure https://www.dukeupress.edu/visions-of-beirut opinions mine. he/him
@tomhemingway.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at University of Warwick. Usually at a gig.
@peetgelderblom.bsky.social
Creative Creature • Regisseur / Editor • Filmmaker WHEN FOREVER DIES • PACT MET DE DUIVEL • BLACK-OUT https://beacons.ai/peet directorama.net
@suninthebelly.bsky.social
Film historian and video essayist. Assistant Professor at University of Warwick. Previously at Goethe University and University of Chicago. https://www.ritikakaushik.com/
@ursmusically.bsky.social
PhD - Royal College of Music, London; MA - Univ. of East Anglia; B. Tech - NIT, Trichy. Researching audience experience, audiovisual culture, video essays. bit.ly/baahubalive
@butnocigar.bsky.social
Academic, knitter, video game player. Into popular culture, digital media, labor, and creativity. Known to make a video essay now and then.
@middento.bsky.social
"Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul." (James) "What would it be like, he asked himself, a world where everything was foreign?" (Fouad Laroui)
@theessaylibrary.com
📼 Video essay collective making weird and fun collaborative projects: youtube.com/@theessaylibrary 📱 Discord server with 700+ members dedicated to the craft of video essays: theessaylibrary.com
@drdanobrien.bsky.social
I am a lecturer in Film and Digital Media. My research publications span across: Film, Television, Video Gaming, Digital Performance and Video Essaying. https://vimeo.com/user107379730 https://criticalcommons.org/user/DanOB1/media
@jemsaunders1.bsky.social
Film & TV placement person by day, audio-visual PhD student researching Birmingham's representation on screen by night (both UoB). Videographic criticism, documentary, TV, history, locations, employability... and parenting a toddler.
@popdetective.bsky.social
Video essays focusing on the intersections of society, masculinity, politics, and entertainment. Hosted by Jonathan McIntosh
@pixeladay.bsky.social
Youtube video essays critically analysing games and how they make us feel (youtube.com/pixeladay). Articles published in Uppercut, Into the Spine and Kritiqal. She/her. Help support me so I can keep wasting my PhD to do this instead: patreon.com/pixeladay
@strucci.bsky.social
video editor, Marlin on Oddity Roadshow, host of Fight Together on the One Piece Podcast. also the parasocial hell person. based in ATL
@maifeminism.bsky.social
MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
@maireinerth.bsky.social
Media Studies, Politics, Stuff. Dr. phil. & Angry Mom. Film/Media scholar currently working on/with film, animation, videographic criticism & green media. Based in Babelsberg, 🩷 in Hamburg. Homepage: https://maikereinerth.de/ Photo Credit: S. Reis
@nelsoncarvajal.com
Chicago ➡️ LA ‣ Creator Manager at TikTok ‣ Webby Award winner ‣ Emmy-nominated Producer ‣ nelson.carvajal@tiktok.com ‣ Official Site: nelsoncarvajal.com
@stephenbroomer.bsky.social
filmmaker & writer. video essayist. host of art & trash. publisher, black zero. programmer, ad hoc. sessional lecturer, cinema studies institute, university of toronto. he/him.
@colleenlaird.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Japanese Film at the University of British Columbia. Videographic scholarship ❤️
@elizabethalsop.bsky.social
CUNY prof, culture writer, author of ELAINE MAY (University of Illinois Press, 2025): https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088582
@dangolding.com
Professor and Chair of Media Comms at Swinburne University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm). dangolding.com
@queline.bsky.social
📺 Video essayist: BFI, GKIDS, youtube.com/@kikikrazed 💬 Community manager: @theessaylibrary.com 💻 kikikrazed.com
@cormacrestrike.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Film LJMU | PhD student Uni of Glasgow researching video essays & film sound | Associate Editor @intransition.bsky.social
@jbinotto.bsky.social
Professional hat wearer, amateur video tinkerer, wild analyst www.transferences.org
@bolddecade.bsky.social
Essay Filmmaker • Herzog Film School '10 Fandor | MUBI | tecmerin | [in]Transition | Vague Visages https://www.youtube.com/@bolddecade
@mikloskiss.bsky.social
Associate Professor of AV Arts & Cognition @rug.nl, author of this http://bit.ly/2SJM29Q, this http://bit.ly/2a4zvaw and this http://bit.ly/3A0KrPG. ORCID: 0000-0002-9136-8200
@arielavissar.bsky.social
Media scholar, video maker and PhD student at Tel Aviv University. TV studies, popular culture and videographic criticism. https://www.arielavissar.work/ https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
@filmscalpel.bsky.social
Audiovisual thoughts about audiovisual arts. Filmscalpel creates, collects and curates video essays at www.filmscalpel.com
@cinemajok.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | film, dance, musicals, Jacques Demy, genre, videographic criticism | she/her | toddler maman | author of Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical (Oxford UP, 2024)
@askjerseth.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Popular Music at University of California, Riverside. Formerly Lecturer in Audiovisual Media at Uni of Liverpool. Social histories of music, sound, technology, and media; popular music; music videos; sound and music in film and media
@dereklong08.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)
@kathleenloock.bsky.social
American studies and media studies | Leibniz University Hannover, Germany | New book: Hollywood Remaking: How Film Remakes, Sequels, and Prequels Shape Industry and Culture (UC Press, 2024) | Emmy Noether Research Group: Hollywood Memories
@willdigravio.bsky.social
researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history critic: Paste, Time, etc. assistant editor, Cineaste PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam The Video Essay Podcast | ex-Media Matters views mine www.willdigravio.com
@arthousedirectr.bsky.social
Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.
@meesk.bsky.social
TV, media industries, algorithmic brand culture, videographic criticism. Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Media Studies, Lewis & Clark College. She/her.
@llamasjr.bsky.social
global media professor at @asc.upenn.edu associate directing at @annenbergcargc.bsky.social author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01 español incluído.