The Archives of Popular Culture was established in the 1970s by the American Studies faculty at California State University, Fullerton. The collection includes a wide range of cultural materials, such as Marvel and DC comics, underground comics, Manga, graphic novels, original screenplays, and magazines from 1900 to the 1980s. These materials offer a glimpse into 20th-century American life, capturing the evolution of subcultures, music scenes, film movements, and more. They provide insight into how superhero stories reflected societal values, how underground art challenged norms, and how magazines mirrored the changing interests and attitudes of different generations. The collection offers an opportunity to explore and understand various aspects of American identity over time.
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is renowned for its pioneering efforts to rescue, preserve, and showcase moving image media, and is dedicated to ensuring that the collective visual memory of our time is explored and enjoyed for generations to come. Established in 1965, the Archive is the second-largest repository of motion pictures and broadcast programming in the United States, after the Library of Congress, and the world's largest university-held collection. More than 520,000 holdings of films, television programs, news footage and radio recordings are conserved in a state-of-the-art facility, called The Packard Humanities Stoa, in Santa Clarita, California.
The expanded scope of the scholarly and intellectual study of popular culture has had an increased impact on the holdings within the Popular Culture Collections in the Department of Special and Area Studies at the University of Florida. The Belknap Collection for the Performing Arts was founded in the 1950s by Sara Yancey Belknap, a UF librarian and respected dance historian. Her personal collection of scrapbooks, photos, programs and miscellaneous ephemera provided the foundation for an area of collecting that has grown to encompass impressive primary source research material for theatre, film, music, television, sports, politics, comic books, cartoons and day to day current events.
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is one of the most extensive and complete archives of television news anywhere in the world. We have been recording, preserving, and providing access to television news broadcasts of the U.S. national networks since August 5, 1968. The core collection includes daily evening news programs from ABC, CBS, and NBC along with CNN (since 1995) and Fox News (since 2004).
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