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Bigger than Ben-Hur [electronic resource] :the book, its adaptations, and their audiences / edited by Barbara Ryan and Milette Shamir.

Contributor(s): Shamir, Milette [editor.] | Ryan, Barbara, 1958- [editor.] | Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Television and popular culture.Publisher: Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2016. 2015)Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780815653318; 081565331X.Subject(s): Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 -- Film adaptations | Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. Ben-Hur | Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism | Motion pictures and literature | Christianity in motion pictures | Christianity in literature | Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959) | Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1925)Genre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 813/.4 Online resources: Full text available:
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.
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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.

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