Bigger than Ben-Hur : the book, its adaptations, and their audiences / edited by Barbara Ryan and Milette Shamir.
Material type: TextSeries: Television and popular culturePublisher: Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780815653318
- 081565331X
- Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. Ben-Hur
- Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 -- Film adaptations
- Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905
- Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1925)
- Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959)
- Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1925)
- Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959)
- Ben-Hur (Wallace, Lew)
- Christianity in literature
- Christianity in motion pictures
- Motion pictures and literature
- Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- Christianity in literature
- Christianity in motion pictures
- Film adaptations
- Historical films
- Motion pictures and literature
- PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
- United States
- 813/.4 23
- PS3134 .B43 2016eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the Ben-Hur tradition / Barbara Ryan and Milette Shamir -- Ben-Hur's and America's Rome: from virtuous republic to tyrannous empire / Eran Shalev -- Ben-Hur's mother: narrative time, nostalgia, and progress in the Protestant historical romance / Milette Shamir -- Retelling and untelling the Christmas story: Ben-Hur, Uncle Midas, and the sunday-school movement / Jefferson J.A. Gatrall -- Holy lands, restoration, and Zionism in Ben-Hur / Hilton Obenzinger -- "In the service of Christianity": Ben-Hur and the "redemption" of the American theater, 1899-1920 / Howard Miller -- June Mathis's Ben-Hur: a tale of corporate change and the decline of women's influence in Hollywood / Thomas J. Slater -- Getting Judas right: the 1925 Ben-Hur as Jesus film and Biblical epic / Richard Walsh -- Take up the white man's burden: race and resistance to Ben-Hur / Barbara Ryan -- The erotics of the galley slave: male desire and Christian sacrifice in the 1959 film version of Ben-Hur / Ina Rae Hark -- Challenging a default Ben-Hur: a wish list / David Mayer.
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