Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you that ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA,
edited by Timothy Clack and Marcus Brittain, has recently been
published (Left Coast Press, 2007, Hardback 978-1-59874-233-6,
Paperback 978-1-59874-234-3). Under 5 different themes, its contents are:
Preface
Chapter 1. “Introduction: Archaeology and the Media”, by Marcus Brittain &
Timothy Clack (pp. 11-65)
PART I. Archaeology’s Reception of the Media
Chapter 2. “An Archaeological Fashion Show: How Archaeologists Dress and
How they are Portrayed in the Media”, by Cornelius Holtorf (pp.69-88)
Chapter 3. “Not Archaeology and the Media”, by Peter Fowler (pp.89-107)
PART II. Translating Archaeological Narratives
Chapter 4. “A Short History of Archaeological Communication”, by Karol
Kulik (pp. 111-124)
Chapter 5. “In the Camera’s Lens: An Interview with Brian Fagan and
Francis Pryor”, by Marcus Brittain and Timothy Clack (pp. 125-134)
Chapter 6. “Darkness Disseminated: Lennart Larsen’s Images as
Photojournalism, Pop Archaeology, and Works of Art”, by Christine Finn
(pp. 135-150)
PART III. Has the Media Changed Archaeology?
Chapter 7. “Archaeology and the German Press”, by Marion Benz and Anna
Katrien Liedmeier (pp. 153-174)
Chapter 8. “Great War, Great Story: A Personal View of Media and Great War
Archaeology”, by Jon Price (pp. 175-184)
PART IV. Visual Archaeology
Chapter 9. “Screening Biases: Archaeology, Television, and the Banal”, by
Timothy Taylor (pp. 187-200)
Chapter 10. “ ‘Worldwonders’ and ‘Wonderworlds’: A Festival of
Archaeological Film”, by Tom Stern (pp. 201-220)
Chapter 11. “Faking It: Why the Truth is so Important for TV Archaeology”,
by Angela Piccini (pp. 221-236)
Chapter 12. “The Iconography of Exhumation: Representations of Mass Graves
from the Spanish Civil War”, by Layla Renshaw (pp. 237-251)
PART V. Archaeology, the Media, and the Digital Future
Chapter 13. “The Past as Playground: The Ancient World in Video Game
Representation”, By Andrew Gardner (pp. 255-272)
Chapter 14. “Digital Media, Agile Design, and the Politics of
Archaeological Authorship”, by Michael Shanks (pp. 273-289)
Index
From back cover:
“Archaeology fascinates the public. As a result, archaeologists deal with
media and media issues much more regularly than colleagues in other
academic disciplines. Archaeologists need mass media to communicate their
research to the public who read, support and, ultimately, fund their work.
Media logic has often coloured how archaeologists do that work and report
their findings. In this volume, a group of distinguished archaeologists,
many with media-backgrounds, address the wide range of questions in this
intersection of fields. They explore the crucial question: what are the
long-term implications of the increasing exposure through – and reliance
upon – media forms for the practice of archaeology? An array of media
forms are covered including television, film, photography, the popular
press, art, video games, radio and digital media. The volume will be of
interest to public archaeologists, public historians, communication
researchers, and their students.”
Sincerely,
Marcus Brittain
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Cambridge Archaeological Unit,
Department of Archaeology,
University of Cambridge,
Downing Street,
Cambridge,
CB2 3DZ
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