- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 269 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Statement
- Television and popular culture
- Uniform Title
- Bigger than Ben-Hur (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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 -- Coda: A timeline of Ben-Hur companies, brands, and products.
- LCCN
- 2015037762
- OCLC
- ssj0001592626
- Title
Bigger than Ben-Hur [electronic resource] : the book, its adaptations, and their audiences / edited by Barbara Ryan & Milette Shamir.
- Imprint
Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2016.
- Edition
First edition.
- Series
Television and popular culture
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Ryan, Barbara, 1958-
Shamir, Milette.