


My first “Let’s Study” was just a playthrough with some commentary and a bit of b-roll for this particular series I’m really leaning in to the video essay format more, trying to create shareable versions of what are basically class lectures, or conference presentations. There’s a lot of material in this particular Let’s Study adapted from the first chapter of my dissertation, as well as material I developed when teaching the Half-Life franchise in class ( including this lesson from my “Comparative Media Poetics” course). It’s for Half-Life 2, and I foresee it being spread over seven parts. For the past couple of months, I have been hard at work at a new “Let’s Study,” the most ambitious so far.
