Archaeology and the Media

by Clack,Timothy; Clack,Timothy

• ISBN13: 9781598742336
• ISBN10: 1598742337
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 7
Preface	p. 9
Introduction: Archaeology and the Media	p. 11
Archaeology's Reception of the Media	p. 67
An Archaeological Fashion Show: How Archaeologists Dress and How they are Portrayed in the Media	p. 69
Not Archaeology and the Media	p. 89
Translating Archaeological Narratives	p. 109
A Short History of Archaeological Communication	p. 111
In the Camera's Lens: An Interview with Brian Fagan and Francis Pryor	p. 125
Darkness Disseminated: Lennart Larsen's Images as Photojournalism, Pop Archaeology, and Works of Art	p. 135
Has the Media Changed Archaeology?	p. 151
Archaeology and the German Press	p. 153
Great War, Great Story: A Personal View of Media and Great War Archaeology	p. 175
Visual Archaeology	p. 185
Screening Biases: Archaeology, Television, and the Banal	p. 187
'Worldwonders' and 'Wonderworlds': A Festival of Archaeological Film	p. 201
Faking It: Why the Truth is so Important for TV Archaeology	p. 221
The Iconography of Exhumation: Representations of Mass Graves from the Spanish Civil War	p. 237
Archaeology, the Media, and the Digital Future	p. 253
The Past as Playground: The Ancient World in Video Game Representation	p. 255
Politics of Archaeological Leadership	p. 273
References	p. 291
Index	p. 313
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 321
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