In 1997, James Cameron's ""Titanic"", became the first motion picture to earn a billion dollars worldwide. These essays ask the question: What made ""Titanic"" such a popular movie? Why has this film become a cultural and film phenomenon? What makes it so fascinating to the film-going public?
In 1997, James Cameron's ""Titanic"", became the first motion picture to earn a billion dollars worldwide. These essays ask the question: What made ""Titanic"" such a popular movie? Why has this film become a cultural and film phenomenon? What makes it so fascinating to the film-going public?
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.
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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
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
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