Bigger Than Ben-Hur: The Book, its Adaptations, and Their Audiences (Television and Popular Culture)

by Barbara Ryan (Editor), Milette Shamir (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2015

  $78.35

  First published in 1880, Ben-Hur became a best-seller. For over a century, it has become a ubiquitous pop cultural presence, representing a deeply powerful story and monumental experience for some and a defining work of bad taste and false piety for others. Bigger Than Ben-Hur to explores its polarizing effect and expands the contexts within which it can be studied.