Comics and archaeology

by Broeck, Leen van Kamash, Zena Soar, Kathryn

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"This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions from a specifically archaeological perspective, foregrounding the representation and narrative use of material cultures. It fulfils its objectives through three reception studies in the first part of the volume and three chapters by comic creato…

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Full title :Comics and archaeology / Zena Kamash, Katy Soar, Leen Van Broeck, editors.

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Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:Cham, Switzerland
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages) : : illustrations (chiefly color).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030989194, 3030989194
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-98919-4
oclc:on1347381543
LC Classification:PN6714
Dewey Decimal:741.5/358

Introduction: Why Comics and Archaeology? -- "The Aliens from 2,000 B.C.!" : Truth, Fiction and Pseudoarchaeology in American Comic Books -- Panels from the South Seas: Pacific Colonialism, Archaeology, and Pseudoscience in Francophone Bande Dessinée -- Making Sargon Great Again: Reuse and Reappropriation of Ancient Mesopotamian Imagery in Fan-Art of the Online Right -- Creating Comics for Public Engagement in Roman Aeclanum: Illustrating Ancient History -- "Mix, Mould, Fire!" : Comic Art and Educational Outreach Inspired by Archaeology -- "They Do Things Differently There" : Articulating the Unfamiliar Past in Community Heritage Comics.

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Archaeology in art Archaeology in literature Comic books, strips, etc Comic books, strips, etc. -- History an… Criticism, interpretation, etc Graphic novels Graphic novels -- History and criticism