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.
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.
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.
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
Paul Heyer is professor of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His published works include Communications and History; The Medium and the Magician: Orson Welles—the Radio Years; and a coedited textbook, Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society.
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