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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.

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.