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After consuming media produced by the Ranged Touch group (Game Studies Study Buddies, Just King Things, Too Much Future, Homestuck Made this World), I kinda grew out of the kind of media analysis that go like "damn, look at this bad character arc, let me show you how to do a good character arc" "oh am gee, look how the lore makes no sense, here's how the lore would make sense instead".

I really prefer this analysis that is more grounded on the history and conditions that create media, and the effects it has in the world. Any recommendations on books, youtube channels or podcasts that do this?


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For film I like:
Thomas Flight
Every Frame A Painting (long defunct now but a great pool I revisit often)

Both very craft focused but tie their essays to lots of cultural and historical touchstones.

For games I like:
Errant Signal
Jacob Geller
Thorhighheels (still kinda "damn look at this bad" but like, amazing deep dives into lost games media & weird history & weird vibes)

For general cultural-mixed-media stuff:
Folding Ideas (used to do more media analysis, has broadened to a lot of topics which are not QUITE media but idk still counts)
Hazel - like Thor her videos are kind of casual and amateur in approach but well researched and critical and weird and cool!
Colleens manga recs if you can get past the bad jokes and skits, and ever had an interest in whatever the fuck shojou manga is, colleens probably got the most well-researched, well compiled, well sourced, encyclopedic knowledge in the entirety of the English speaking world, available on one channel. I do not vibe with shojou all that much but they make me want to lol.

I probably have more but those are the ones that first come to mind every time!

Oh! Errant Signal and Folding ideas are top-tier channels for sure! Some of my favorites! Every day Dan Olson posts a video is an event XD

I watch Jacob Geller every now and then! I like his stuff. I'm not subbed but every now and then a video of his pops up on my recs and I watch it.

I didn't know Hazel, Colleen, Lines in Motion, or Thor High Heels! I'll check them out, thank you very much!

I used to watch Thomas Flight and Every Frame a Painting, but I think their approach to media analysis is a bit closer to the stuff I'm getting tired of. That sort of "Game Maker's Toolkit" content philosophy that tries to dissect a thing, and only the thing in itself, ignoring everything around it, in order to create this manual on how to do media the "right way". It's only about the techniques, it's only about how to guide the eyes and feelings of the spectator, and I think that's getting lamer and lamer as a concept as I move on.

Take ES' "Children of Doom" series as a counter-point to that philosophy: It's a historical approach to art. He analyses not only the games, but how they move in time, how things evolve, how they influence each other. We're studying how media is changing the world and how the world changes media. THAT to me is interesting.