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

ISBN: 023111317X

ISBN13: 9780231113175

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

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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...

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