Ben-Hur

The Original Blockbuster

Jon Solomon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

928 Seiten

2016
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-0795-3 (ISBN)

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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. General Lew Wallace’s book 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 Ben-Hur 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 MGM film in production in Italy.
Jon Solomon’s new 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

Jon Solomon is Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Giovanni Boccaccio: The Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (Harvard University Press, 2011), The Ancient World in the Cinema: Revised and Expanded Edition (Yale University Press, 2001), Ptolemy’s Harmonics: Translation and Commentary (Brill, 1999), The Ancient World in the Cinema (A. S. Barnes & Co, 1978), Ancient Roman Feasts and Recipes (E. A. Seemann, 1977), The Complete Three Stooges (C3 Entertainment, 2001). He is editor of Accessing Antiquity: The Computerization of Classics Studies (University of Arizona Press, 1993), Apollo: Origins and Influences (University of Arizona Press, 1994) and Ancient Worlds in Film and Television: Gender and Politics (Brill, 2013).

A Note About The Hyphen: Ben-Hur Vs Ben Hur; 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; 16. Bibliography.

Reihe/Serie	Screening Antiquity
Zusatzinfo	56 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Gewicht	1736 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-0795-1 / 1474407951
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-0795-3 / 9781474407953
Zustand	Neuware