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Volume 13 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice

Welcome to special issue 13.2, Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice, co-edited by Barbara Zecchi, Ariel Avissar, Colleen Laird, and Matthew Thomas Payne. This issue presents eight videographic works produced during the 2025 summer workshop at the University of Notre Dame, in which graduate students explored how video essays can articulate scholarly arguments, transforming traditional text-based academic work into audiovisual form. 
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Editor: Barbara Zecchi; Guest Editors: Ariel Avissar, Colleen Laird, Matthew Thomas Payne
Production Editor: Kevin L. Ferguson, Kathleen Loock
Journal Manager: Jason Mittell
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Editors: Barbara Zecchi (Editor), Ariel Avissar (Guest Editor), Colleen Laird (Guest Editor), Matthew Thomas Payne (Guest Editor)


Editorial

Reframing the Argument Special Issue Introduction
Reframing the Argument Special Issue Introduction

Ariel Avissar and Colleen Laird

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice

Research Articles

Is There a “Right Time” for the Palestinian (Image)? Or: A Videographic Attempt at Tracing an Ongoing Catastrophe
Is There a “Right Time” for the Palestinian (Image)? Or: A Videographic Attempt at Tracing an Ongoing Catastrophe

Rotem Sudman

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice

Timeline Dripping
Timeline Dripping

Celia Sainz

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice

Equivalence without Equality
Equivalence without Equality

Inha Park

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice

Behind the Curtain: Tracing Hitchcock’s Hidden Fingerprints in Jerusalem
Behind the Curtain: Tracing Hitchcock’s Hidden Fingerprints in Jerusalem

Iddo Better Pocker

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice

Ruin and Revolution: Beyond Deindustrialization and the Politics of Extractivism
Ruin and Revolution: Beyond Deindustrialization and the Politics of Extractivism

Eva Álvarez-Vázquez

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice

Phenomenology of Marco Damilano
Phenomenology of Marco Damilano

Benedetta Andreasi

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice

El gesto
El gesto

Carol Pinzon Masmela

Volume 13 • Issue 2 • 2026 • Reframing the Argument: Videographic Criticism as Graduate Research Practice

Reframing a Revolution: Historicizing an Essay Film
Reframing a Revolution: Historicizing an Essay Film

Yasaman Baghban

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