"Remembering and Forgetting RMS Titanic" by Christopher Gittings, Western Univeristy

Christopher Gittings (Film Studies) presents: "Sites of Spectrality: Remembering
and Forgetting RMS Titanic"

Apparitions of Titanic are frequently generated in the name of preserving or even restoring cultural memory whilst simultaneously causing its disappearance.
Drawing on Jacques Derrida's concept of spectrality, the essay analyses the spectral
return of Titanic, its haunting of cultural memory through various sites in popular
culture such as tabloid journalism, the publicly traded RMS Titanic Inc, artifact
exhibitions, board and computer games, a watch manufactured from the ship's
wreckage, and a centenary memorial cruise. The lecture argues that the various
myths of Titanic that come back to us as specters work to de-form the ship and the
tragic events of April 14 1912 into cultural memories that take commodity form.
To generate a ghost of Titanic for purchasing remembrance, a return to an abstracted commodified body is necessary. Dr. Gittings' analysis of this return explores the workings of cultural memory and the market around spectral bodies of Titanic.

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