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?

Zusammenfassung
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?

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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