7. The Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit site based in San Francisco, California and purports to hold over 10 petabytes of information in its collection. The archive contains over 3,500 films that range from features (Plan 9 from Outer Space, Battleship Potemkin, The General, M, Reefer Madness, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari are some of my favorites on the site), propaganda films, advertising archives, the astonishing Prelinger Archives, a Machinima Archive, and various video ephemera like home movie collections. You might also be familiar with the many other non-video collections associated with The Internet Archive, like the Wayback Machine, which catalogs websites that may eventually go dark. I personally consider The Internet Archive to be the most important resource listed in this entire feature. Why? Because it's an archive, and it isn't running as a corporate/commercial operation.
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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