Ben-Hur : the original blockbuster /

The complete history of the Ben-Hur phenomenon. Ben-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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Solomon, Jon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Series:Screening antiquity.
Subjects:
Ben-Hur (Motion picture : 1959)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Film adaptations.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The first blockbuster
  • Lew Wallace before Ben-Hur
  • "How I came to write Ben-Hur"
  • Publication and early reception of the novel
  • The transformations of the novel
  • Reasons for success
  • Early staged readings : Ben-Hur, in tableaux and pantomime
  • Ben-Hur in song and instrumental music
  • "Ben-Hur flour hast the go to make the dough" : early Ben-Hur commerce
  • Ben-Hur in moving pictures : stereopticon lectures and the 1907 Kalem Ben-Hur
  • "The greates motion picture property in the history of the screen" : the 1925 MGM Ben-Hur
  • Between the MGM films
  • "The world's most honored motion picture" : the 1959 MGM Ben-Hur
  • The next half-century : new formats and new versions.

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