Excavating the Future : Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Well-known in science fiction for tomb-raiding and mummy-wrangling, the archaeologist has been a rich source for imagining ‘strange new worlds'from ‘strange old worlds.'But more...
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2018
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