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LEADER: 02504cam a22004218i 4500
001 2015037762
003 DLC
005 20151121083156.0
008 151008s2016 nyu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2015037762
020 $a9780815634171 (cloth)
020 $a9780815634034 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $z9780815653318 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3134$b.B43 2016
082 00 $a813/.4$223
245 00 $aBigger than Ben-Hur :$bthe book, its adaptations, and their audiences /$cedited by Barbara Ryan and Milette Shamir.
250 $aFirst edition.
263 $a1601
264 1 $aSyracuse :$bSyracuse University Press,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
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.
600 10 $aWallace, Lew,$d1827-1905.$tBen-Hur.
650 0 $aChristianity in literature.
600 10 $aWallace, Lew,$d1827-1905$xFilm adaptations.
630 00 $aBen-Hur (Motion picture : 1925)
630 00 $aBen-Hur (Motion picture : 1959)
650 0 $aChristianity in motion pictures.
650 0 $aMotion pictures and literature.
650 0 $aHistorical films$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aRyan, Barbara,$d1958-$eeditor.
700 1 $aShamir, Milette,$eeditor.