Box office archaeology
Subtitle: refining Hollywood's portrayals of the past
By: Julie M. Schablitsky, editor.
Contributors: Schablitsky, Julie M.
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781598740554; 9781598740561
Subjects: Motion pictures and history.; Historical films -- History and criticism.; Archaeology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The way of the archaeologist / Julie M. Schablitsky; value: Unwrapping the mummy : Hollywood fantasies, Egyptian realities / Stuart Tyson Smith; value: Vikings, vixens, and Valhalla : Hollywood depictions of the Norse / Mark Axel Tveskov and Jon M. Erlandson; value: A pirates [sic] life for me! But what did that really mean? / Charles R. Ewen and Russell K. Skowronek; value: Titanic / James P. Delgado; value: Voyage from myth : return of the Confederate sumbarine H.L. Hunley / Robert S. Neyland; value: Pocahontas unanimated : the life of a Powhatan princess / Randy Amici; value: The life and times of the ever-changing Hollywood Indian / Charles M. Haecker; value: Imagining blackness : archaeological and cinematic visions of African American life / Paul R. Mullins; value: Five points on film : myth, urban archaeology, and Gangs of New York / Rebecca Yamin and Lauren J. Cook; value: Western boomtowns : the lost episodes / Julie M. Schablitsky; value: Contesting Hollywood's Chinatowns / Bryn Williams and Stacey Camp; value: When the legend becomes fact : reconciling Hollywood realism and archaeological realities / Vergil E Noble.