Singing over the bones: James Cameron'sTitanic

Abstract

Taking issue with accounts of the 1997 film Titanic that denigrate the love story in favor of the technological rendering of the ship's sinking, we historicity the film within cultural myths surrounding the original Titanic, as well as within three classical myths‐“Pygmalion and Galatea,” “Tristan and Iseult,”; and “Eros and Psyche”— recovering the gendered tensions between romantic love and technological progress. We then show how Cameron, by allowing the action to flow from the memory of Old Rose, casts his film as a feminine descent that constrains the masculine excesses of technology by rehumanizing cultural myths of romantic love.

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