Neoliberal and social democratic versions of history, class and ideology in James Camerons 'Titanic' and Roy Bakers 'a night to remember'
@article{Cramer2017NeoliberalAS, title={Neoliberal and social democratic versions of history, class and ideology in James Camerons 'Titanic' and Roy Bakers 'a night to remember'}, author={Steve Cramer}, journal={Sydney Studies in English}, year={2017}, volume={43}, pages={108} }
In cultural terms, representations of the foundering of the 'Titanic' have, in over a century since the event, assumed the proportions of a socio-economic myth. Within academic circles the disaster has widely been seen as paving the way for the onset of literary modernism, shattering the myth of Victorian/Edwardian technological progress and challenging the hierarchical grand narratives of a golden age of mechanical achievement. As Tim Bergfelder and Sarah Street observe