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Box office archaeology : refining Hollywood's portrayals of the past

This distinguished group of archaeologists select key subjects and genres used by Hollywood and provide the historical and archaeological depth that a movie cannot--what really happened in history. Topics include Egypt, the Wild West, Civil War submarines, Vikings, the Titanic, and others.
Print Book, English, ©2007
Left Coast, Walnut Creek, Calif., ©2007
256 p. : il. ; 23 cm
9781598740561, 9781598740554, 1598740563, 1598740555
318398673
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 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 submarine 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
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