1st Edition
Box Office Archaeology Refining Hollywood’s Portrayals of the Past
Edited By Julie M Schablitsky
Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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“How true is it?” is a common refrain of patrons coming out of movie theatres after the latest film on pirates, Vikings, or mummies. While Hollywood usurps the past for its own entertainment purposes, archaeologists and historians know a lot about many of these subjects, digging up stories often more fascinating than the ones projected on screen. This distinguished group of archaeologists select... Read more
Chapter 1 The Way of the Archaeologist, Julie M. Schablitsky; Chapter 2 Unwrapping the Mummy, Stuart Tyson Smith; Chapter 3 Vikings, Vixens, and Valhalla, Mark Axel Tveskov, Jon M. Erlandson; Chapter 4 A Pirate's Life for Me!; Chapter 5 Titanic, James P. Delgado; Chapter 6 Voyage from Myth, Robert S. Neyland; Chapter 7 Pocahontas Unanimated, Randy Amici; Chapter 8 The Life and Times of the Ever-Changing Hollywood Indian, Charles M. Haecker; Chapter 9 Imagining Blackness, Paul R. Mullins; Chapter 10 Five Points on Film, Rebecca Yamin, Lauren J. Cook; Chapter 11 Western Boomtowns, Julie M. Schablitsky; Chapter 12 Contesting Hollywood's Chinatowns, Bryn Williams, Stacey Camp; Chapter 13 When the Legend Becomes Fact, Vergil E. Noble;
Biography
Schablitsky, Julie M
