Near...far...this podcast will go on! Welcome back to Flashback and our season two premiere, Titanic. Temporary Assistant Professor of American History at Cambridge Lewis Defrates joins as we tackle one of Hollywood's biggest films ever, James Cameron's 1997 romance-disaster epic that follows the lives of two star-crossed lovers aboard the infamous ship on its maiden and final voyage. We talk transatlantic crossings, class aboard the Titanic, and the long legacy of the disaster in media both before and after Cameron's movie. 

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Flashback is graciously supported by the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute

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P.S. – at one point I call James Cameron, a Canadian, an American. Apologies to Cameron and Canada.