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Ben-hur : the original blockbuster / John Solomon.
- Title
- Ben-hur : the original blockbuster / John Solomon.
- Author
- Solomon, Jon, 1950-
- Publication
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3134.B46 S65 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 910 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Screening Antiquity
- Uniform Title
- Screening antiquity.
- Subject
- Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 863-883) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The first blockbuster -- Lew Wallace before Ben-Hur -- "How I came to write Ben-Hur" -- Publication and early reception of the novel -- The transformations of the novel -- Reasons for success -- Early staged readings : Ben-Hur, in tableaux and pantomime -- Ben-Hur in song and instrumental music -- "Ben-Hur flour hast the go to make the dough" : early Ben-Hur commerce -- Ben-Hur in moving pictures : stereopticon lectures and the 1907 Kalem Ben-Hur -- "The greates motion picture property in the history of the screen" : the 1925 MGM Ben-Hur -- Between the MGM films -- "The world's most honored motion picture" : the 1959 MGM Ben-Hur -- The next half-century : new formats and new versions.
- ISBN
- 9781474407953
- 1474407951
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library