Disaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema

by Wheeler Winston Dixon

Book Overview

Using the media's coverage of the death of Princess Diana as a departing point, Wheeler Dixon presents a sharply critical assessment of the current state of movies--from the cult of celebrity, to the nature of public surveillance, to the role of print and television media in shaping our shared consciousness--unveiling our fascination with disaster. Dixon argues that movies such as James Cameron's Titanic replay the same Hollywood disaster plotlines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023111317X
• ISBN13: 9780231113175
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"