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Bigger than Ben-Hur : the book, its adaptations, and their audiences
- Title
- Bigger than Ben-Hur : the book, its adaptations, and their audiences / edited by Barbara Ryan & Milette Shamir.
- Publication
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 16-2178 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xviii, 269 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Television and popular culture
- Uniform Title
- Television and popular culture.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-2178
- ISBN
- 9780815634171
- 081563417X
- 9780815634034
- 081563403X
- 9780815653318 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015037762
- OCLC
- 923728083
- Title
- Bigger than Ben-Hur : the book, its adaptations, and their audiences / edited by Barbara Ryan & Milette Shamir.
- Publisher
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Television and popular cultureTelevision and popular culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Ryan, Barbara, 1958- editor.Shamir, Milette, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-2178