Research Catalog

Title

Box office archaeology : refining Hollywood's portrayals of the past / Julie M. Schablitsky, editor.

Publication

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schablitsky, Julie M. (Julie Marie)

Description

256 p. : ill., 1 map; 24 cm.

Subject

• Motion pictures and history
• Historical films > History and criticism
• Archaeology and history
• Archaeology
• Historische films
• Archeologie
• Geschiedenis

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The way of the archaeologist / Julie M. Schablitsky -- Unwrapping the mummy : Hollywood fantasies, Egyptian realities / Stuart Tyson Smith -- Vikings, vixens, and Valhalla : Hollywood depictions of the Norse / Mark Axel Tveskov and Jon M. Erlandson -- A pirates [sic] life for me! But what did that really mean? / Charles R. Ewen and Russell K. Skowronek -- Titanic / James P. Delgado -- Voyage from myth : return of the Confederate sumbarine H.L. Hunley / Robert S. Neyland -- Pocahontas unanimated : the life of a Powhatan princess / Randy Amici -- The life and times of the ever-changing Hollywood Indian / Charles M. Haecker -- Imagining blackness : archaeological and cinematic visions of African American life / Paul R. Mullins -- Five points on film : myth, urban archaeology, and Gangs of New York / Rebecca Yamin and Lauren J. Cook -- Western boomtowns : the lost episodes / Julie M. Schablitsky -- Contesting Hollywood's Chinatowns / Bryn Williams and Stacey Camp -- When the legend becomes fact : reconciling Hollywood realism and archaeological realities / Vergil E Noble.

ISBN

• 9781598740554 (cased : alk. paper)
• 1598740555 (cased : alk. paper)
• 9781598740561 (pbk.)
• 1598740563 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008295455

OCLC

• 123114421
• SCSB-11433909

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library