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Archaeology and the media

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
Print Book, English, 2016
Routledge, London, 2016
Aufsatzsammlung
323 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781598742336, 9781598742343, 1598742337, 1598742345
1009228460
Introduction: archaeology and the media / Marcus Brittain and Timothy Clack. pt. I. Archaeology's reception of the media. An archaeological fashion show: how archaeologists dress and how they are portrayed in the media / Cornelius Holtorf
Not archaeology and the media / Peter Fowler. pt. II. Translating archaeological narratives. 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. pt. III. Has the media changed archaeology? 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. pt. IV. 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. pt. V. Archaeology, the media, and the digital future. The past as playground: the ancient world in video game representation / Andrew Gardner
Politics of archaeological leadership / Michael Shanks