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020 _a9780815653318
020 _a081565331X
020 _z9780815634034 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _z9780815634171
020 _z081563417X
035 _a(OCoLC)934433726
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aPS3134
_b.B43 2015
082 0 0 _a813/.4
_223
245 0 0 _aBigger than Ben-Hur
_h[electronic resource] :
_bthe book, its adaptations, and their audiences /
_cedited by Barbara Ryan and Milette Shamir.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aSyracuse :
_bSyracuse University Press,
_c2016.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
336 _atext
_btxt
337 _acomputer
_bc
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
490 0 _aTelevision and popular culture
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aWallace, Lew,
_d1827-1905
_xFilm adaptations.
600 1 0 _aWallace, Lew,
_d1827-1905.
_tBen-Hur.
650 0 _aHistorical films
_zUnited States
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aMotion pictures and literature.
650 0 _aChristianity in motion pictures.
650 0 _aChristianity in literature.
630 0 0 _aBen-Hur (Motion picture : 1959)
630 0 0 _aBen-Hur (Motion picture : 1925)
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aShamir, Milette,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aRyan, Barbara,
_d1958-
_eeditor.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815653318/
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Film, Theater and Performing Arts
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
999 _c807
_d807