Linda Maria Koldau's The Titanic on Film: Myth versus Truth PDF

By Linda Maria Koldau

The narrative surrounding the Titanic’s voyage, collision, and sinking in April 1912 turns out tailored for movie. With transparent different types of gender, type, nationality, and faith, the dominating Titanic delusion deals a wealth of motifs ripe for the silver screen-heroism, melodrama, love, depression, excitement, discomfort, failure, triumph, reminiscence and everlasting guilt. This quantity offers a close evaluation of Titanic motion pictures from 1912 to the current and analyzes the six significant Titanic motion pictures, together with the 1943 Nazi propaganda construction, the 1953 Hollywood movie, the 1958 British docudrama A evening to Remember, the 1979 television creation S.O.S. Titanic, the 1996 mini-series Titanic, and James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster. by way of exhibiting how every one movie follows and builds on a development of fastened scenes, motifs and information outlined because the “Titanic code,” this paintings yields telling insights into why this particular catastrophe has maintained such nice relevance into the twenty first century.

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