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1 online resource |
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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. |
ISBN |
147440796X (electronic bk.) |
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9781474407960 (electronic bk.) |
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9781474407977 (ePub ebook) |
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1474407978 |
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9781474407953 |
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1474407951 |
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1474407943 |
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9781474407946 |
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