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Ben-Hur : The Original Blockbuster / Jon Solomon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Screening Antiquity : SCANPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (928 p.) : 56 colour illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474407946
  • 9781474407960
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.4 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3134.B43 S65 2016
  • PS3134.B43 S65 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)