'Giant Strides' in documentaries, 'Ascents' in archaeology: nautical archaeology's relationship with and place within popular culture

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335 - 346; refs; tables
Author:
Sperry, Joel
Abstract:
Covers thirty years of the representation of nautical archaeology on television. Criticises and positions current research, then attempts to develop an objective methodology for examining television documentaries. The relationships and similarities between television documentaries and academia and the wider professional and amateur discipline is debated. A sequence of images is defined and it is argued that this forms a 'unique selling-point' used by both television and the academic discipline. [The article uses screenshots from television productions which are only available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/maritime/giant-strides/index.htm]
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biab_online
Classifications:
1A, 1A, 1F

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