ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on the very peculiar process of reviewing video essays. It addresses the novelty of the video essay as well as of the process of open peer review. The chapter describes the structure of the video essay review and provides examples and advice on how to write them. It shows that potential reviewers to engage with video essays by losing some critical distance. Once the main question addressed in the video essay is individuated, the central part of the review focuses on establishing whether the author has provided a convincing argument through the audiovisual form, which means through montage, through the combination of images, sound, voice, written text and so on. Film scholar Christian Keathley argues that each video essay may be situated, in terms of aesthetic strategies, in a spectrum from an explanatory mode to a poetic mode.
