Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series: Jason Mittell,“What is a Videographic Book (and why is this one about Breaking Bad)

Over the past two decades, video essays have emerged as a vibrant mode of analyzing film and media, both within academia and broader public discourse. But if a video essay is comparable to an academic article, what are the possibilities of a larger-form videographic book? In this presentation, Jason Mittell shares his newly-published videographic book, The Chemistry of Character in Breaking Bad: A Videographic Book (Lever Press), an open-access analysis of characterization within the landmark television series featuring two dozen original video essays intertwined with a written manuscript.