Titanic in Myth and Memory, The : Representations in Visual and Literary Culture.
Title:
Titanic in Myth and Memory, The : Representations in Visual and Literary Culture.
Author:
Bergfelder, Tim.
ISBN:
9780857717382
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I. General Culture, History and Literature -- Chapter One. The Relaunching of Ulster Pride: The Titanic, Belfast and Film -- Chapter Two. 'My Poor Brave Men': Time, Space and Gender in Southampton's Memory of the Titanic -- Chapter Three. The Titanic Disaster: Stead, Ships and the Supernatural -- Four. The Titanic Disaster and Images of National Identity in Scandinavian Literature -- Chapter Five. Textual Memory: The Making of the Titanic's Archive -- Chapter Six. Enzensberger's Titanic: The Sinking of the German Left and the Aesthetics of Survival -- Chapter Seven. Reading the Titanic: Contemporary Literary Representations of the Ship of Dreams -- Part II. Cinematic Titanic Adaptions 1912-1958 -- Chapter Eight. Early German Cinema and the Modern Media Event -- Chapter Nine. Atlantic: The First Titanic Blockbuster -- Chapter Ten. Goebbels Runs Aground: The Nazi Titanic Film -- Chapter Eleven. Reading Titanic Politically: Class, Nation and Gender in Negulesco's Titanic (1953) -- Chapter Twelve. Questions of Authenticity and Realism in A Night to Remember (1958) -- Part III. James Cameron's Titanic -- Chapter Thirteen. Titanic/Titanic: Thoughts on Cinematic Presence and Monumental History -- Chapter Fourteen. 'Far Across the Distance': Historical Films, Film History and Titanic (1997) -- Chapter Fifteen. Unsinkable Masculinity: The Artist and the Work of Art in James Cameron's Titanic -- Chapter Sixteen. Romancing Disaster: Titanic and the Rites of Passage Film -- Chapter Seventeen. Titanic: Whiteness on the High Seas of Meaning -- Chapter Eighteen. Riverdancing as the Ship Goes Down -- Chapter Nineteen. The Technical Challenge of Emotional Realism and James Cameron's Titanic -- Chapter Twenty. Expanded Narrative Space: Titanic and CGI Technology.
Index of Titles -- Index of Names and Subjects.
Abstract:
Since its maiden voyage and sinking in April 1912, the Titanic has become a monumental icon of the twentieth century and has inspired a multitude of interpretations. This book is the first to present a fully comprehensive discussion of the diverse representations of the Titanic disaster in cinema, history, literature and art. The contributors draw out the connections as well as differences in the way generations of artists and audiences have approached the tragedy and the final section is an in-depth examination of its most recent interpretation, James Cameron's blockbuster film Titanic. The book is both an enjoyable read and a valuable interdisciplinary and comparative text._x000D_ _x000D_ Engrossing reading…the film fan has been waiting a long time for this book, but tread carefully, as it can have quite an insidious impact on a working day! - Film Magazine.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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