Description
How archaeologists communicate their research and the interpretation of the past is an increasingly important feature of the training of this media-generation of academic and professional archaeologists. With even more importance placed on the public's relationship to its historic places, knowledge, sites and archaeological heritage, it is vital that students are able to question what influence the media, such as popular television programmes like "Time Team", may have on their work, its popular perception or its possible misrepresentation. The main focus of the volume is on television, but readers will find a wider range of issues covered including archaeology in the press, documentary films, photography and digital media.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84472-156-6 (9781844721566)
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Marcus Brittain | Timothy Clack
Archaeology and the Media
Book
08/2006
UCL Press
€44.74
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Persons
Tim Clack and Marcus Brittain both teach archaeological theory and philosophy in the Department of Archaeology, University of Manchester. Tim researches into the African Palaeolithic whilst Marcus is a British Neolithic and Bronze Age specialist. They have both worked at the intersection of media and archaeology and are conducting further research projects looking at the relationships between performance, media, public understanding, contemporary society and 'the past'.
Content
1 Introduction: Archaeology and Media; M.Brittain T.Clack 2 A Short History of Archaeological Communication; K.Kulik 3 Not Archaeology and the Media; P.Fowler 4 Accuracy, Reality, and the Affects of Media on Archaeological Agendas; T.Schadler-Hall 5 The Popular Images, Fuelled by the Media: An Archaeological Fashion Show; C.Holtorf 6 Do the Time Team Generation Study Archaeology at University?; M.Horton 7 Faking It: Why the Truth is So Important for TV Archaeology; A.Piccini 8 Darkness Disseminated: Lennart Larsen's Images as Photojournalism, Pop Archaeology, and Works of Art; C.Finn 9 Screening Biases: Archaeology, Television and the Banal; T.Taylor 10 Great War, Great Story: The Media as Help and Hindrance in Great War Archaeology; J.Price 11 The Iconography of Exhumation and the Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War; L.Renshaw 12 In the Camera's Lens: An Interview with Prof. Brian Fagan and Dr. Francis Pryor MBE 13 Digital Media and the Politics of Archaeological Representation; M.Shanks