The Race That Never Ended: The Making of Ben Hur

Autor Geri Parlby

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The Race That Never Ended: The Making of Ben Hur

Autor Geri Parlby

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The Race That Never Ended tells the extraordinary story of Ben-Hur, the epic that has galloped across centuries, cultures, and media. It begins not with Lew Wallace’s famous novel, but with a painting: The Chariot Race, an 1870s masterpiece that captured the drama of ancient Rome before Wallace ever set pen to paper. This early vision of… Přejít na celý popis

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The Race That Never Ended tells the extraordinary story of Ben-Hur, the epic that has galloped across centuries, cultures, and media. It begins not with Lew Wallace’s famous novel, but with a painting: The Chariot Race, an 1870s masterpiece that captured the drama of ancient Rome before Wallace ever set pen to paper. This early vision of spectacle laid the groundwork for the story that would become Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a book that transformed American literature and imagination.From there, the journey unfolds as Ben-Hur leaps from page to stage, where live horses thundered across theatres, dazzling audiences with a fusion of faith and spectacle. Magic Lantern shows, pantomimes, and courtroom battles over copyright carried the story into the modern age, while the birth of cinema gave it new life—and new struggles. The silent 1925 Ben-Hur became a defining Hollywood achievement, only to be outshone decades later by the 1959 MGM epic that rescued a failing studio and won record-breaking Oscars.Yet the race didn’t stop there. The saga explores how Ben-Hur has been reimagined in later films, television, and even reboots, each reflecting the anxieties and ambitions of its time. Along the way, it traces the enduring pull of ancient Rome, the power of religious spectacle, and the art of Hollywood ballyhoo.In the end, Ben-Hur is more than a story of vengeance, faith, and redemption—it is a cultural marathon, a race that, once begun, has never truly ended.

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Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Rozměr
168 x 240 x 23
jazyk
angličtina
Vazba
pevná vazba
Hmotnost
462 g
isbn
978-1-03-611790-0
Počet stran
224
datum vydání
18.09.2026
ean
9781036117900

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