Melissa Dollman, PhD, is co-founder of Deserted Films, a locally-focused home movie collection based in Palm Springs. Her publications include a fully digital dissertation, Changing Lanes: A Reanimation of Shell Oil’s Carol Lane; “Tribesourcing Southwest Films: Counter-Narrations and Reclamation,” KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies on Indigenous Knowledges (June 2021, co-author); “Opening The Can: Home Movies In The Public Sphere,” in Amateur Movie Making: Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England, 1915-1960 (Indiana University Press, 2017), and “Gone Estray” in [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 5.4, 2019.
