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Titanic Legacy: Disaster As Media Event and Myth
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Titanic Legacy: Disaster As Media Event and Myth Hardcover - 1995

by Heyer, Paul

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Praeger Pub Text, 1995. Hardcover. New. 200 pages. 9.75x6.75x0.75 inches.
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Details

  • Title Titanic Legacy: Disaster As Media Event and Myth
  • Author Heyer, Paul
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger Pub Text, Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0275953521
  • ISBN 9780275953522 / 0275953521
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.4 x 0.81 in (24.23 x 16.26 x 2.06 cm)
  • Reading level 1270
  • Library of Congress subjects Titanic (Steamship), Shipwrecks - North Atlantic Ocean
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 95022016
  • Dewey Decimal Code 363.123

From the rear cover

This is the first book to deal exclusively with the influence and meaning of what media historian Paul Heyer calls "our century's first collective nightmare". Using contemporary as well as archival sources, he explores a series of intriguing questions: Why has the TITANIC disaster affected the way we think about ourselves and our technology? How has the media made it into a morality play of mythic dimensions? What impact has that story had on the development of 20th-century communications? This timely and compelling book pays homage to the TITANIC's fateful voyage by attempting to explain not why she struck an iceberg on a cold April night in 1912, but what is surely her greatest enigma: the hold the event still has over us.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/01/1995, Page 591
  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/1995, Page 1400

About the author

PAUL HEYER is Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. His previous books include Nature, Human Nature, and Society (Greenwood, 1982) and Communications and History (Greenwood, 1988). He is coeditor of Communication in History: Technology, Culture, and Society.