4. Open Culture
Open Culture is a site that offers free educational and cultural media culled from the Internet. It was founded by Dan Colman, who is Director & Associate Dean at Stanford University. According to its founders: "Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it." Not unlike the Internet Archive, Open Culture features media beyond video including educational resources and audio books. Particularly interesting is the site's collection of works on famous critical thinkers and philosophers. For example, you can consider Michel Foucault's work, including collected lectures from YouTube. The proper movie section of the site contains about 600 movies, most of which are out of copyright, such as Alexander Nevsky, but which also includes contemporary films like the Beastie Boys feature Fight for Your Right Revisited.
Scott A. Lukas
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Scott A. Lukas has taught anthropology and sociology Lake Tahoe Community College for sixteen years and in 2013 was Visiting Professor of American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany. He has been recognized with the McGraw-Hill Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association (2005), the California Hayward Award for Excellence in Education (2003), and a Sierra Arts Foundation Artist Grant Program Award in Literary–Professional (2009). In 2006, he was a nominee to the California Community College Board of Governors. He is the author/editor of The Immersive Worlds Handbook (2012), Theme Park (2008), The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nature, and Self (2007), Fear, Cultural Anxiety, and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy Films Remade, (co-edited with John Marmysz, 2009), Recent Developments in Criminological Theory (co-edited with Stuart Henry, 2009), and Strategies in Teaching Anthropology (2010). His book Theme Park was recently translated into Arabic. He appeared in the documentary The Nature of Existence and has provided interviews for To the Best of Our Knowledge, The Huffington Post UK, The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, and Caravan (India).
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