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Title:

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

Publisher:

Left Coast Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

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.

Other Authors:

Schablitsky, Julie M. (Julie Marie)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

When the legend becomes fact : reconciling Hollywood realism and archaeological realities / Vergil E Noble. 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:

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

LCCN:

2008295455

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)