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1 online resource |
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Television and popular culture |
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Television and popular culture.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. Ben-Hur.
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Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 -- Film adaptations
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| SUBJECT |
Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 fast |
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Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1925) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008182773
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Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008182775
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Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1925) fast |
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Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959) fast |
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Ben-Hur (Wallace, Lew) fast |
| Subject |
Christianity in literature.
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Christianity in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures and literature.
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Historical films -- United States -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Christianity in literature
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Christianity in motion pictures
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Historical films
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Motion pictures and literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Historical films
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Film adaptations
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Film adaptations.
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Historical films.
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Adaptations cinématographiques.
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Films historiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ryan, Barbara, 1958- editor.
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Shamir, Milette, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780815653318 |
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081565331X |
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