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Bigger than Ben-Hur : the book, its adaptations, and their audiences
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- Creator
- edited by Barbara Ryan & Milette Shamir
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 081563417X, 9780815634034, 081563403X, 9780815653318, 9780815634171, 081565331X
- OCLC
- ocn923728083, ocn934433726
- 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