Ben-Hur : : The Original Blockbuster / / Jon Solomon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Solomon, Jon,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Argitaratze-urtea: 2022
• Hizkuntza: English
• Saila: Screening Antiquity : SCAN
• Deskribapen fisikoa: 1 online resource (928 p.) :; 56 colour illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgements --; A Note about the Hyphen: Ben-Hur vs Ben Hur --; Series Editors' Preface --; List of Abbreviations --; 1 The First Blockbuster --; 2 Lew Wallace Before Ben-Hur --; 3 "How I Came To Write Ben-Hur" --; 4 Publication and Early Reception of the Novel --; 5 The Transformations of the Novel --; 6 Reasons for Success --; 7 Early Staged Readings: Ben-Hur, in Tableaux and Pantomime --; 8 Ben-Hur in Song and Instrumental Music --; 9 "My God! Did I Set All This Into Motion?": The Klaw & Erlanger Ben-Hur --; 10 "Ben-Hur Flour Has The Go To Make The Dough": Early Ben-Hur Commerce --; 11 Ben-Hur in Moving Pictures: Stereopticon Lectures and the 1907 Kalem Ben-Hur --; 12 "The Greatest Motion Picture Property in the History of the Screen": The 1925 MGM Ben-Hur --; 13 Between the MGM Films --; 14 "The World's Most Honored Motion Picture": The 1959 MGM Ben-Hur --; 15 The Next Half-Century: New Formats and New Versions --; Bibliography --; General Index --; Ben-Hur Index --; Personal Names, Companies, Institutions, Societies, and Unions Index --; Non-Ben-Hur Title Index
• Gaia: The complete history of the Ben-Hur phenomenonBen-Hur was the first literary blockbuster to generate multiple and hugely profitable adaptations, highlighted by the 1959 film that won a record-setting 11 Oscars. More than a century before The Hunger Games and Harry Potter, and decades before Gone with the Wind and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, General Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur was spun off into dozens of popular publications and media productions, becoming a veritable commercial brand name that earned tens of millions of dollars.Ben-Hur: The Original Blockbuster surveys the phenomenon's unprecedented range and extraordinary endurance: various editions, spin-off publications, stage productions, movies, comic books, radio plays, and retail products were successfully marketed and sold from the 1880s and throughout the twentieth century. Today Ben-Hur Live is touring Europe and Asia, with a third film released in 2016.Jon Solomon's book offers an exciting and detailed study of the Ben-Hur brand, tracking its spectacular journey from Wallace's original novel through to twenty-first century adaptations, and encompassing a wealth of previously unexplored material along the way.
• Formatua: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474407960; 9783110780444
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474407960
• Sartu: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jon Solomon.

The complete history of the Ben-Hur phenomenonBen-Hur was the first literary blockbuster to generate multiple and hugely profitable adaptations, highlighted by the 1959 film that won a record-setting 11 Oscars. More than a century before The Hunger Games and Harry Potter, and decades before Gone wit...