Singing over the Bones: James Cameron' s Titanic DES Taking issue withe accounts of the 1997 film Titanic that denigrate the love story in favor of the technological rendering of the ship's sinking we historicize the film within cultural myths surrounding the original Titanic as well as within three classical myths- Pygmalion Galatea Tristan Iseult Eros Psyche- recovering the gendered tensions between romantic love 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.