The Era of The Critic: Why are Video Essays so Popular (and Hated)?

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video sources/mentioned videos:
F.D. Signfier. "Break Bread." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41B5YonixBs
Kat Blaque. "Why is LeftTube so White?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JxbjvvpDNQ
Shanspeare. “Linguistic Discrimination and the Pitfalls of Intelligence.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6vVB552ozM&t=118s
AfroMarxist. “Angela Davis on Diversity and Individual Advancement.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB3HYgfHkVo
BluShades. “How Video Essays Are Deceiving You.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm00tSDlCG0
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online sources:
Bresland, John. “On the Origin of the Video Essay.” https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v9n1/gallery/ve-bresland_j/ve-origin_page.shtml
Online Etmology Dictionary. “Essay.” https://www.etymonline.com/word/essay
Purdue University, “Essay Writing.” https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/essay_writing/index.html
Faden, Eric S. “A Manifesto for Critical Media.” https://scalar.usc.edu/works/film-studies-in-motion/media/FADEN%20Manifesto%20for%20Critical%20Media_Spring08.pdf
Thain, Laura. “Video Essay Resource Guide.” https://sites.dwrl.utexas.edu/visualrhetoric/2016/03/04/video-essay-resource-guide/
Every Frame a Painting. “F for Fake: How to Structure a Video Essay.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GXv2C7vwX0
Moss, Yelizaveta. “Essay Film.” https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791286/obo-9780199791286-0216.xml
Lopate, Phillip. “In Search of the Centaur: The Essay-Film.” The Threepenny Review, no. 48, 1992, pp. 19–22. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4384052.
Greenstein, Daniel I. “The Future of Undergraduate Education: Will Differences across Sectors Exacerbate Inequality?” Daedalus, vol. 148, no. 4, 2019, pp. 108–37. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48563395. Accessed 28 Jul. 2022.
Segall, Eric J., and Adam Feldman. “The Elite Teaching the Elite: Who Gets Hired by the Top Law Schools?” Journal of Legal Education, vol. 68, no. 3, 2019, pp. 614–22. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27072336. Accessed 28 Jul. 2022.
Reimer, Bennett. “A Response to the Question of Elitism: Elitism, Open and Shut.” Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, no. 93, 1987, pp. 22–25. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40318161. Accessed 28 Jul. 2022.
Darren L. Hutchinson, "Continually Reminded of Their Inferior Position”: Social Dominance, Implicit Bias, Criminality, and Race, 46 WASH. U. J. L. & POL’Y 023 (2015), https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_journal_law_policy/vol46/iss1/8
Yale Linguistics Department. “YGDP Members Speak About Linguistic Prejudice.” https://ling.yale.edu/news/ygdp-members-speak-about-linguistic-prejudice#:~:text=Linguistic%20prejudice%20is%20a%20form,%2C%20generations%2C%20and%20ethnic%20groups.
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timestamps
0:00 sponsor
1:13 intro
5:00 humble beginnings of the genre
11:11 breadtube????
24:06 the modern video essay (and its shortcomings)

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