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Vanished Circumstance: Titanic , heritage, and film

2000; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/135272500363742

1470-3610

Fiona Terry-Chandler,

Photography and Visual Culture

James Cameron's 1997 Hollywood blockbuster Titanic broke box-office records. This article argues that one explanation of this success was that Titanic is a heritage film which held a powerful attraction to audiences steeped in a contemporary heritage culture. Sections of the public are attracted to heritage and crave its illusory evocation of a retrievable and meaningful past. Titanic embodies this and several other heritage traits: the idea of the 'time capsule'; a cult of authenticity; presentism; a time-tunnel syndrome; and the film's picturesque and sublime aesthetic, all of which combine in an explicit articulation of a heritage ethos.