Bigger than Ben-Hur  the book, its adaptations, and their audiences /  [electronic resource] : 
edited by Barbara Ryan and Milette Shamir. 
 - First edition. 
 - Syracuse :  Syracuse University Press,  2016. 
 - 1 online resource (pages cm) 
 - Television and popular culture .
 - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780815653318 081565331X 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 --Film adaptations.<br/>Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905.  Ben-Hur. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959)<br/>Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1925)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Historical films--History and criticism.--United States<br/>Motion pictures and literature.<br/>Christianity in motion pictures.<br/>Christianity in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3134  / .B43 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.4