The Titanic in Myth and Memory: Representations in Visual and Literary Culture

by Tim Bergfelder, Sarah Street

Overview

Since its maiden voyage and sinking in April 1912, Titanic has become a monumental icon of the 20th century and has inspired a wealth of interpretations across literature, art and media. This book offers a comprehensive discussion of the diverse representations of the connections and differences in the way generations of artists and audiences have approached and used the tragedy. In the final section is an in-depth study of James Cameron's blockbuster film "Titanic".

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850434320
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/27/2004
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Tim Bergfelder is Professor of Film at the University of Southampton, UK. His many books include Film Architecture and the Transnational Imagination: Set Design in 1930s European Cinema (2007), Concise Cinegraph: the Encyclopedia of German Cinema (2006), Stars and Stardom in Brazilian Cinema (2018), and The German Cinema Book 2nd Edition (2020).

Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction--Tim Bergfelder and Sarah Street
• General Culture, History and Literature
• The Relaunching of Ulster Pride: The Titanic, Belfast and Film--John Hill
• "My Poor Brave Men"--Time, Space and Gender in Southampton's Memory of the Titanic--Michael Hammond
• The Titanic Disaster: Stead, Ships and the Supernatural--John Wilson Foster
• The Titanic Disaster and Images of National Identity in Scandinavian Literature--Peter Björkfors
• Textual Memory: The Making of the Titanic's Archive--Peter Middleton and Tim Woods
• Enzensberger's Titanic: The Sinking of the German Left and the Aesthetics of Survival--Alasdair King
• Reading the Titanic: Contemporary Literary Representations of the Ship of Dreams--Kenneth Womack
• Cinematic Titanic Adaptations, 1912-1958
• Early German Cinema and the Modern Media Event: Mime Misu's Titanic--In Night and Ice (1912)--Michael Wedel
• Atlantic--The First Titanic Blockbuster--Robert Peck
• Goebbels Runs Aground: The Nazi Titanic Film (1943)--Paul Malone
• Reading Titanic Politically--Class, Nation and Gender in Negulesco's Titanic (1953)--Alan Finlayson and Richard Taylor
• Questions of Authenticity and Realism in A Night to Remember (1958)--Sarah Street
• James Cameron's Titanic
• Titanic/Titanic: Thoughts on Cinematic Presence and Monumental History--Gaylyn Studlar
• "Far Across The Distances": Historical Films, Film History, and Titanic--Peter Krämer
• Unsinkable Masculinity: The Artist and the Work of Art in James Cameron's Titanic--David Gerstner
• Romancing Disaster: Titanic and the Rites of Passage Film--Susan Sydney Smith
• Titanic: Whiteness on the High Seas of Meaning--Sean Redmond
• Riverdancing as the Ship Goes Down--K.J. Donnelly
• The Technical Challenge of Emotional Realism and James Cameron's Titanic--Mark J.P. Wolf
• Expansion of Narrative Space: Titanic and CGI Technology--Aylish Wood