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Archaeology and the media / Timothy Clack, Marcus Brittain, editors.

Contributor(s): Clack, Timothy | Brittain, MarcusMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College LondonPublication details: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007. Description: 323 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781598742336 (hbk. : alk. paper); 1598742337 (hbk. : alk. paper); 9781598742343 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1598742345 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Archaeology -- Social aspects | Mass media -- Social aspects | Archaeology in mass mediaDDC classification: 930.1 LOC classification: CC175 | .A725 2007
Contents:
Introduction : archaeology and the media / Marcus Brittain and Timothy Clack -- An archaeological fashion show : how archaeologists dress and how they are portrayed in the media / Cornelius Holtorf -- Not archaeology and the media / Peter Fowler -- A short history of archaeological communication / Karol Kulik -- In the camera's lens : an interview with Brian Fagan and Francis Pryor / Marcus Brittain and Timothy Clack -- Darkness disseminated : Lennart Larsen's images as photojournalism, pop archaeology, and works of art / Christine Finn -- Archaeology and the German press / Marion Benz and Anna Katrien Liedmeier -- Great war, great story : a personal view of media and great war archaeology / Jon Price -- Screening biases : archaeology, television, and the banal / Timothy Taylor -- 'Worldworkers' and 'wonderworlds' : a festival of archaeological film / Tom Stern -- Faking it : why the truth is so important for TV archaeology / Angela Piccini -- The iconography of exhumation : representations of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War / Layla Renshaw -- The past as playground : the ancient world in video game representation / Andrew Gardner -- Politics of archaeological leadership / Michael Shanks.
Summary: The public's fascination with archaeology has meant that archaeologists have had to deal with media more regularly than other scholarly disciplines. In this volume, a group of archaeologists address a wide range of questions in this intersection of fields.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-311) and index.

Introduction : archaeology and the media / Marcus Brittain and Timothy Clack -- An archaeological fashion show : how archaeologists dress and how they are portrayed in the media / Cornelius Holtorf -- Not archaeology and the media / Peter Fowler -- A short history of archaeological communication / Karol Kulik -- In the camera's lens : an interview with Brian Fagan and Francis Pryor / Marcus Brittain and Timothy Clack -- Darkness disseminated : Lennart Larsen's images as photojournalism, pop archaeology, and works of art / Christine Finn -- Archaeology and the German press / Marion Benz and Anna Katrien Liedmeier -- Great war, great story : a personal view of media and great war archaeology / Jon Price -- Screening biases : archaeology, television, and the banal / Timothy Taylor -- 'Worldworkers' and 'wonderworlds' : a festival of archaeological film / Tom Stern -- Faking it : why the truth is so important for TV archaeology / Angela Piccini -- The iconography of exhumation : representations of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War / Layla Renshaw -- The past as playground : the ancient world in video game representation / Andrew Gardner -- Politics of archaeological leadership / Michael Shanks.

The public's fascination with archaeology has meant that archaeologists have had to deal with media more regularly than other scholarly disciplines. In this volume, a group of archaeologists address a wide range of questions in this intersection of fields.