Ben-Hur : : The Original Blockbuster / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Screening Antiquity : SCAN
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (928 p.) :; 56 colour illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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