| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Television and popular culture
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Television and popular culture.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. Ben-Hur.
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Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 -- Film adaptations.
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Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. |
| Genre/Form |
Film adaptations.
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| Subject |
Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1925)
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Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1925) |
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Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959)
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Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959) |
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Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1925) |
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Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959) |
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Ben-Hur (Wallace, Lew) |
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Christianity in literature.
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Christianity in literature. |
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Christianity in motion pictures.
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Christianity in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures and literature.
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Motion pictures and literature. |
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Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Historical films. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film adaptations.
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| Added Author |
Ryan, Barbara, 1958- editor.
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Shamir, Milette, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bigger than Ben-Hur. First edition 9780815634171 (DLC) 2015037762 (OCoLC)923728083 |
| ISBN |
9780815653318 (electronic book) |
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081565331X (electronic book) |
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9780815634171 |
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081563417X |
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9780815634034 |
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081563403X |
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