Box office archaeology refining Hollywood's portrayals of the past (Left Coast Press, 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The way of the archaeologist / Julie M. Schablitsky -- Unwrapping the mummy: Hollywood fantasies, Egyptian realities / Stuart Tyson Smith -- Vikings, vixens, and Valhalla: Hollywood depiction 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 Chinatown / Bryn Williams and Stacey Camp -- When the legend becomes fact: reconciling Hollywood realism and archaeological realities / Vergil E Noble