Bergfelder, Tim & Sarah Street. The Titanic in Myth and Memory. Representations in Visual and Literary Culture. 1st printing. London: I.B. Tauris. October, 2004. hardcover. isbn: 185043431X. scarcity: fairly common.

Publisher’s Press Release:

• The first comprehensive look at the diversity of representations of the Titanic.
• Foregrounds Cameron's Titanic cinema blockbuster.
• Will appeal to the Titanic general special interest market.
• There are university courses on the Titanic for which this book is a must-have.

Since its maiden voyage and sinking in April 1912, the Titanic has become a monumental icon of the twentieth century and has inspired a multitude of interpretations. The Titanic in Myth and Memory is the first book to present a fully comprehensive discussion of the diverse representations of the Titanic disaster in cinema, history, literature and art. The contributors draw out the connections as well as differences in the way generations of artists and audiences have approached the tragedy and the final section is an in-depth examination of its most recent interpretation, James Cameron’s blockbuster film Titanic. The book is both an enjoyable read and a valuable interdisciplinary and comparative text.

Tim Bergfelder is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, co-editor of The German Cinema Book, and author of International Adventures – Popular German Cinema in the 1960’s.

Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol, and author of British National Cinema, Costume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film, and Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA.

It will also be available in softcover, isbn# 1850434328.