Excavating Indiana Jones: Essays on the Films and Franchise

ISBN-13: 9781476676920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 218 str.

Randy Laist

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Table of Contents

Introduction (Randy Laist) 1
History
Situating Indy: American Archaeologists, Global Ambitions
and the Interwar Years (Andrew W. Bell) 13
Fordian Knots: Indiana Jones and the Cinema of John Ford (Brian Brems) 25
"You call this archaeology?" Indiana Jones and Hollywood's
View on the Nature of History (Ryan Staude) 38
Cultural Politics
Translocations, Cultural Geography and Anthropological
Imperialism in Raiders of the Lost Ark (Tatiana Prorokova) 51
"I said no camels!" Indiana Jones and the Catalogue
of Orientalism (Mat Hardy) 64
The Temple of Orientalism (Debaditya Mukhopadhyay ) 76
The Quest for "Alien" Indigenous Knowledge in Indiana Jones
and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Kasey ­Jones-Matrona) 87
Identity
Indiana Jones and the Crusade for Authenticity (Siobhan Lyons) 103
"I came to find my father": Indiana Jones and the Quest for the Lost Father (Linda Wight) 114
Indiana Jones as Educated Swashbuckler (Jennifer Crumley) 126
"It belongs in a museum," or Does It? Indiana Jones,
Artifactology and the Afterlives of Objects (Kerry Dodd) 136
Extended Franchise
Raiders of the Lost Longbox: Rediscovering The Further
Adventures of Indiana Jones (Joseph S. Walker) 151
The Shadow of the Archaeologist: Archetypes of Evil in Marvel's
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones (Brian A. Dixon) 164
"We'll always have Iceland, Indy": Indiana Jones and His Adventures in Video Games (Carl Wilson) 178
Indiana Jones and the Theme Park Adventure (Sabrina Mittermeier) 192
About the Contributors 203
Index 207