Paul Heyer

Titanic Century (eBook, ePUB)

Media, Myth, and the Making of a Cultural Icon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a revealing look at our 100-year fascination with the Titanic disaster and the various media that have been involved in reporting, preserving, and immortalizing the event. The Titanic's fate is still very much in our collective consciousness. A catastrophe that was unimaginable at the time, now 100 years later it continues to provide lessons that we have not yet fully absorbed. And the debate continues regarding how the loss of life might have been averted-could, for example, the nearby ship, Californian, have rescued everyone on board Titanic? The book examines the relationship between a momentous historical event, the media that have been involved in reporting and re-presenting it, and the subsequent transformation of the disaster into an enduring myth in contemporary popular culture. The book will also show how the sinking of the Titanic helped make Guglielmo Marconi a household name; set David Sarnoff on the path that led to his becoming head of RCA; raised the stature of The New York Times to the eminence it has today; and helped give film director James Cameron his current notoriety and influence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216040514
• Artikelnr.: 68330507

Autorenporträt

PAUL HEYER is Associate Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: From Triumph to Tragedy Part One Wireless World
Chapter 1 Enter Marconi Chapter 2 Wireless at Work Chapter 3 Sarnoff's Luck
Chapter 4 The Call for Change Part Two Story of the Century Chapter 5 The
Battle for New York Chapter 6 Carr Van Anda and the New York Times Chapter
7 Canadian Journalists in New York (by Michael Dupuis) Chapter 8 The Search
for Answers Part Three Imagining Disaster Chapter 9 Responses and
Renderings in Literature Chapter 10 The Sinking in Cinema Chapter 11
Resurrection and Preservation Chapter 12 Conclusion: The Titanic as Myth
Appendix Bibliography Index