Introduction : the seductive waters of James Cameron's film
phenomenon / Gaylyn Studlar and Kevin S. Sandler
"Floating triumphantly" : the American critics on Titanic / Matthew
Bernstein
The drama of recoupment : on the mass media negotiation of Titanic
/ Justin Wyatt and Katherine Vlesmas
Selling my heart : music and cross-promotion in Titanic / Jeff
Smith
"Almost ashamed to say I am one of those girls" : Titanic, Leonardo
DiCaprio, and the paradoxes of girls' fandom / Melanie Nash and
Martti Lahti
"Something and someone else" : the mind, the body, and
sexuality
Women first : Titanic action-adventure films, and Hollywood's
female audience / Peter Krämer
"Size does matter" : notes on Titanic and James Cameron as
blockbuster auteur / Alexandra Keller
Heart of the ocean : diamonds and democratic desire in Titanic /
Adrienne Munich and Maura Spiegel
Ship of dreams : cross-class romance and the cultural fantasy of
Titanic / Laurie Ouellette
Bathos and bathysphere : on submersion, longing, and history in
Titanic / Vivian Sobchack
"The china had never been used!" : on the patina of perfect images
in Titanic / Julian Stringer
Titanic, survivalism, and the millennial myth / Diane Negra
"It was true! How can you laugh?" : history and memory in the
reception of Titanic in Britain and Southampton / Anne Massey and
Mike Hammond
Kevin S. Sandler is a visiting assistant professor of English at
Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis and the
editor of Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros.
Animations (Rutgers University Press).
Gaylyn Studlar is the director of the Program in Film and Video
Studies and a professor of film and English literature at the
University of Michigan. She is the co-editor of Visions of the
East: Orientalism in Film (Rutgers University Press) and the
author of numerous books and articles on film and gender.
The contributors to this collection sift through the pre-release
stories, merchandise tie-ins, advertising gimmicks, video offers,
package tours and the like in order to make clear why Titanic
turned out to be such a mammoth, international cultural phenomenon.
. . . Keeping to the popular spirit of Titanic itself, the book is
designed for a broad readership, and the contributors have made an
effort to stay away from theoretical jargon.
*Times Literary Supplement*
Anyone interested in accessible scholarly approaches to film and
culture studies or a keener insight into why and how one film can
resonate across borders at a particular moment in time will find
this a stimulating and useful collection of essays.
*Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas*
A thought-provoking collection of essays that bring contemporary
cinema into serious focus. Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster is
wedded to movie history, to current cultural attitudes, and to its
impact on viewers. Too bad someone wasnÆt around to do this for
Gone With the Wind.
*chair, Film Studies Program, Wesleyan University*
If Titanic was not just another film, then this work, with its
range of approaches and perspectives, is not just another
anthology.
*University of Illinois*
The authors in this volume offer a first-rate examination of a
question that has long vexed studies of media and popular culture:
what makes a text resonate so extensively, so deeply with its
audiences that it becomes a public sensation? Sandler and Studlar
have assembled a collection of essays that vividly and persuasively
demonstrate the complexity of forces acting on the reception of
what became the biggest film blockbuster of them all.
*author of Melodrama and Meaning: History, Culture, and the Films
of Douglas Sirk*
Intriguing perspectives on a major cultural phenomenon.
*author of Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the
Titanic" Disaster*
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