[in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies is a diamond open-access journal published by the Open Library of Humanities. It is the first academic journal of its kind. The open peer-reviewed journal encourages scholars to write using the very materials that constitute their objects of study—moving images and sounds—and publishes work that contributes to both the knowledge of film and media studies and the videographic form. The journal was awarded the 2015 Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship of Distinction by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Established in 2014 as a project of MediaCommons and Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (then known as Cinema Journal), as of 2024, [in]Transition is published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH) and owned by SCMS.
Welcome to [in]Transition’s third issue of 2026, 13.3, featuring nine peer-reviewed videographic works that focus on a wide range of film and moving image studies topics: the use of color in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert, the racial aesthetics in Regina King's One Night in Miami, an examination of black grief via the usage of surveillance footage and doomscrolling aesthetics, a reflection on the “mirror routine” throughout film history, an examination of visual representations of sound in silent cinema, an analysis of feminist themes in zombie narratives, a historical reclamation of women’s labor in the British cine-club movement, an analysis of representations of fatherhood on screen, and a meta-reflection on videographic criticism via Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise.
In addition, we would like to extend a sincere thank you to all of our peer reviewers. We appreciate their hard work and constructive feedback, ensuring that each submission is as strong as it can be. We also eagerly welcome new reviewers; if you are interested in reviewing for our journal, please contact us.
Finally, as always, we also encourage new submissions.
Drew Morton and Chiara Grizzaffi, issue editors
Eva Hageman, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Neepa Majumdar, Alan O’Leary, Maria Pramaggiore, and Barbara Zecchi, article editors
Kevin Ferguson and Kathleen Loock, production editors
Jason Mittell, journal manager
Research Articles
Must We Say What We Mean? Attempting Criticism in the Video Essay
James MacDowell and James Zborowski
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