
Archaeology and the Media
Left Coast Press Inc
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
323 pages
978-1-59874-234-3 (ISBN)
Description
The public's fascination with archaeology has meant that archaeologists have had to deal with media more regularly than other scholarly disciplines. How archaeologists communicate their research to the public through the media and how the media view archaeologists has become an important feature in the contemporary world of academic and professional archaeologists. In this volume, a group of archaeologists, many with media backgrounds, address the wide range of questions in this intersection of fields. An array of media forms are covered including television, film, photography, the popular press, art, video games, radio and digital media with a focus on the overriding question: What are the long-term implications of the increasing exposure through and reliance upon media forms for archaeology in the contemporary world? The volume will be of interest to archaeologists and those teaching public archaeology courses.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Walnut Creek
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
40 illus
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59874-234-3 (9781598742343)
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Persons
Timothy Clack is about to submit his doctoral thesis to the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK entitled Soul Searching in Human Evolution. He teaches archaeological and anthropological theory/philosophy and has conducted extensive fieldwork in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. In addition he is Senior Tutor at St Anselm Hall with Canterbury Court. Marcus Brittain is a doctoral candidate soon to submit his thesis to the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK on various aspects of 'practice' in the Neolithic and Bronze Age of coastal Wales and the Cambridgeshire Fens. He teaches undergraduate courses in archaeological theory, history and philosophy, with other research pursuits including theatre on ancient and historical sites and 'media wars'.
Content
1: Introduction; I: Archaeology's Reception of the Media; 2: An Archaeological Fashion Show; 3: Not Archaeology and the Media; II: Translating Archaeological Narratives; 4: A Short History of Archaeological Communication; 5: In the Camera's Lens; 6: Darkness Disseminated; III: Has the Media Changed Archaeology?; 7: Archaeology and the German Press; 8: Great War, Great Story; IV: Visual Archaeology; 9: Screening Biases; 10: 'Worldwonders' and 'Wonderworlds'; 11: Faking It; 12: The Iconography of Exhumation; V: Archaeology, The Media, and the Digital Future; 13: The Past as Playground; 14: Digital Media, Agile Design, and the Politics of Archaeological Authorship