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Titanic Century
Paul Heyer
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Description for Titanic Century
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 211 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; WGG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
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. The Titanic's fate is still very much in our collective consciousness. A catastrophe that was unimaginable at the time, now 100 years later it continues to provide lessons that we have not yet fully absorbed. And the debate continues regarding how the loss of life might have been averted—could, for example, the nearby ship, Californian, have rescued everyone on board Titanic? The book examines the relationship between a momentous historical ... Read more
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. The Titanic's fate is still very much in our collective consciousness. A catastrophe that was unimaginable at the time, now 100 years later it continues to provide lessons that we have not yet fully absorbed. And the debate continues regarding how the loss of life might have been averted—could, for example, the nearby ship, Californian, have rescued everyone on board Titanic? The book examines the relationship between a momentous historical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
ABC-CLIO United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313398155
SKU
V9780313398155
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-10
About Paul Heyer
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.
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