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A reminder that in Week 6, we will be welcoming Jason Mittell (Middlebury College, Vermont, USA) to the department for his visiting lecture, 'Criticism & Self-Reflexivity in the Video Essay'. All are welcome.

Jason Mittell is Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies, and Faculty Director of the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative at Middlebury College. He is the co-founder of [in]Transition, the first peer reviewed journal dedicated to audiovisual essays and videographic criticism. His books include the videographic monograph The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad: A Videographic Book (Lever Press, 2024), Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (NYU Press, 2015), and Television & American Culture (Oxford UP, 2009).