عنوان

Cinema, Supernatural Archaeology, and the Hidden Human Past

شماره

LA122729

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Cinema, Supernatural Archaeology, and the Hidden Human Past

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Peter Hiscock

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Close analysis of modern movies reveals - yet archaeologists and historians have failed to understand - that the dominant representation of archaeological research and ancient human culture in mainstream cinema involves explorations of supernatural objects and events. Cinematic archaeology tends to be mythic rather than realistic in focus. Movies frequently present images of the human past that are pseudoarchaeological in the sense that these films tell the same stories as 'alternative archaeology,' even though they may not make an explicit claim to the truthfulness of the events depicted. This pattern is documented through a review of films employing the ancient astronaut model in which visiting aliens changed human development in the past, and through an examination of the work of writer/director Roland Emmerich who has specialized in those films. The cinematic history of these narratives is long, demonstrating that cinema does not merely reproduce popular pseudoarchaeological research, it has also contributed to the growth of these stories. Close analysis of modern movies reveals - yet archaeologists and historians have failed to understand - that the dominant representation of archaeological research and ancient human culture in mainstream cinema involves explorations of supernatural objects and events. Cinematic archaeology tends to be mythic rather than realistic in focus. Movies frequently present images of the human past that are pseudoarchaeological in the sense that these films tell the same stories as 'alternative archaeology,' even though they may not make an explicit claim to the truthfulness of the events depicted. This pattern is documented through a review of films employing the ancient astronaut model in which visiting aliens changed human development in the past, and through an examination of the work of writer/director Roland Emmerich who has specialized in those films. The cinematic history of these narratives is long, demonstrating that cinema does not merely reproduce popular pseudoarchaeological research, it has also contributed to the growth of these stories.

تاريخ نشر

2012

توصيف ظاهري

156-177

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

59/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

ancient astronauts

اصطلاح موضوعی

archaeology

اصطلاح موضوعی

cinema

اصطلاح موضوعی

Indiana Jones

اصطلاح موضوعی

pseudoarchaeology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Peter Hiscock

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156852712X630761

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y