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literature list on: Ben Hur (1959)
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#1
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane: The art of "seeing": Classical paintings and Ben Hur. In: Image and likeness: Religious visions in American film classics. Edited by John R. May. - New York; Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press 1992. (= Isaac Hecker Studies in Religion and American Culture.) pp. 104-115.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Kunst ~ Arts, The
Religion ~ Religion
#2
Babington, Bruce / Evans, Peter William: Biblical epics: Sacred narrative in the Hollywood cinema. - Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press 1993.
Reviews:
Hertkorn, Ottmar: [untitled] In: Medienwissenschaft 1994. No. 2. pp. 189-191.
Description:
Discusses, among others, both The Ten Commandment films by Cecil Blount DeMille, Salome by Wilhelm Dieterle, The Robe by Henry Koster, Ben Hur by William Wyler, Quo Vadis by Mervyn LeRoy, Spartacus by Stanley Kubrick, Demetrius and the Gladiators by Delmer Daves, both The King of Kings films by Cecil Blount DeMille and Nicholas Ray, The Greatest Story Ever Told by George Stevens and finally The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese. Includes a bibliography.
Index:
DeMille, Cecil Blount
Dieterle, Wilhelm [Pseudonym: Dieterle, William]
Koster, Henry
Wyler, William
LeRoy, Mervyn
Kubrick, Stanley
Daves, Delmer
Ray, Nicholas
Stevens, George
Scorsese, Martin
Ten Commandments, The (1923)
Ten Commandments, The (1957)
Salome (1953)
Robe, The (1953)
Ben Hur (1959)
Quo Vadis? (1951)
Spartacus (1959/1960)
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
King of Kings, The (1927)
King of Kings, The (1960)
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (1963)
Last Temptation of Christ, The (1988)
Religion ~ Religion
Religion ~ Religion
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
#3
Ben Hur. - Nürnberg: Verlag Karin Stähle ?J. (= KINOexclusiv 187.)
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
#4
Ben Hur. - Nürnberg: Verlag Karin Stähle ?J. (= Super 8 Filmblätter.)
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
#5
Ben Hur. - Vogt: Peter Kranzpiller ?J. (= Filmprogramm der Kinoszene 176.)
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
#6
Bertram, Thomas: Im Rasiersitz zu Ben Hur. In: Der rote Korsar: Traumwelt Kino der fünfziger und sechziger Jahre. Hrsg. von Thomas Bertram. - Essen: Klartext Verlag 1998. pp. 212-213.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
Traum ~ Dreams
#7
Cherry, Mark: Bigger than Ben Hur: Refreshing the epic ... In: IF: Australia’s Independent Film Magazine ?G. 2000. No. 26. [August] pp. 52-53.
Description:
On Ridley Scott’s Gladiator.
Index:
Scott, Ridley
Wyler, William
Gladiator (2000)
Ben Hur (1959)
#8
de Kock, Ivo: De oude wereld, made in the USA: The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Cleopatra, Ben-Hur & Caligula op DVD. In: Film en Televisie 2002. No. 519. [February] pp. 26-29.
Index:
Sommers, Stephen
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Wyler, William
Brass, Tinto
Mummy, The (1999)
Mummy Returns, The (2000)
Cleopatra (1962)
Ben Hur (1959)
Caligula (1979)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
DVD ~ DVD
#9
Dobbs, Lem: Dad’s the word. In: Sight and Sound NS 6. 1996. No. 2. [February] pp. 12-15.
Description:
On actor Charlton Heston and his many roles in fantastic films, among them Cecil Blount DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, William Wyler’s Ben Hur and Anthony Mann’s El Cid.
Index:
Heston, Charlton
DeMille, Cecil Blount
Wyler, William
Mann, Anthony
Ten Commandments, The (1957)
Ben Hur (1959)
Cid, El (1961)
#10
Etten, Manfred: Die letzte Versuchung Hollywoods: Notizen zum amerikanischen Jesus-Film 1953-1963. In: Jesus in der Hauptrolle: Zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der Jesus-Filme. - Köln: Katholisches Institut für Medieninformation 1992. (= Film-Dienst Extra [November].) pp. 28-32.
Description:
Discusses especially two big Hollywood productions: William Wyler’s Ben Hur and Henry Koster’s The Robe.
Index:
Wyler, William
Koster, Henry
Ben Hur (1959)
Robe, The (1953)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Religion ~ Religion
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
#11
Gerle, Jörg: Ben Hur. In: Film-Dienst 58. 2005. No. 25. [December 8] p. 39.
Description:
On a DVD edition.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
DVD ~ DVD
#12
Gerle, Jörg: Ben Hur. In: Film-Dienst 64. 2011. No. 25. [December 8] p. 55.
Description:
On a DVD edition.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
DVD ~ DVD
#13
Gili, Jean A. / Viviani, Christian: L’antiquité à Hollywood. In: Positif 2000. No. 468. [February] pp. 80-104.
Description:
On the representation of ancient history in film, especially in William Wyler’s Ben Hur and Anthony Mann’s The Fall of the Roman Empire.
Index:
Wyler, William
Mann, Anthony
Ben Hur (1959)
Fall of the Roman Empire, The (1963)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Geschichte: Antike ~ History: Ancient Times
#14
Hasenberg, Peter: Zwischen Arena und Golgatha: Ben Hur von Fred Niblo (1924-26) und Ben Hur von William Wyler (1959). In: Spuren des Religiösen im Film: Meilensteine aus 100 Jahren Filmgeschichte. Hrsg. von Peter Hasenberg, Wolfgang Luley und Charles Martig im Auftrag der Zentralstelle Medien der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz Bonn und des Katholischen Mediendienstes Zürich. - Mainz: Matthias Grünewald Verlag / Köln: Katholisches Institut für Medieninformation 1995. pp. 38-41.
Index:
Niblo, Fred
Wyler, William
Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1924-1926)
Ben Hur (1959)
Religion ~ Religion
#15
Karban, Thomas: Ein Doppelleben: Zum Tode von Miklos Rozsa. In: Film-Dienst 48. 1995. No. 17. [August 15] pp. 16-17.
Description:
On the composer who wrote the score for many fantastic films, among them The Thief of Bagdad by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander and Zoltan as well as William Cameron Menzies; Zoltan Korda’s Four Feathers; The Jungle Book by Zoltan Korda and André de Toth; Hitchcock’s Spellbound; Mervyn LeRoy’s Quo Vadis; Anthony Mann’s El Cid and William Wyler’s Ben Hur.
Index:
Rózsa, Miklós
Berger, Ludwig
Powell, Michael
Whelan, Tim
Korda, Zoltan
Korda, Alexander
Korda, Zoltan
Menzies, William Cameron
de Toth, André
Hitchcock, Alfred
LeRoy, Mervyn
Mann, Anthony
Wyler, William
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
Four Feathers (1939)
Jungle Book (1942)
Spellbound (1945)
Quo Vadis? (1951)
Cid, El (1961)
Ben Hur (1959)
Tod ~ Death
Musik ~ Music
#16
Kozloff, Sarah: Wyler’s wars. In: Film History 20. 2008. No. 4. pp. 456-473.
Description:
On William Wyler’s films made befor, during and after World War II, among them his 1959 Ben Hur.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
Krieg ~ War
#17
Kreitzer, Larry J.: Ben-Hur (1959). In: Bible and cinema: Fifty key films. Edited by Adele Reinhartz. - New York: Routledge 2013. (= Routledge key guides.) pp. 34-39.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
Religion ~ Religion
#18
Leslie, Donna: Hollywood and the Catholic Church. - New York: Long Island University, The Brooklyn Center, M.F.A. 2017. [Abstract in: Masters Abstracts International 56. 2017. No. 6M.]
Description:
Discusses, among others, Cecil Blount DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, William Wyler’s Ben Hur, Nicholas Ray’s King of Kings, and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.
Index:
DeMille, Cecil Blount
Wyler, William
Ray, Nicholas
Gibson, Mel
Ten Commandments, The (1957)
Ben Hur (1959)
King of Kings (1961)
Passion of the Christ, The (2004)
Religion ~ Religion
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
#19
LoBrutto, Vincent: Ralph Winters. In: LoBrutto, Vincent: Selected takes: Film editors on editing. - Westport, Connecticut; New York; London: Praeger Publishing 1991. pp. 39-50.
Description:
On the cutter and his work for King Solomon’s Mines by Compton Bennett and Andrew Marton, Mervyn LeRoy’s Quo Vadis?, William Wyler’s Ben Hur and John Guillermin’s King Kong.
Index:
Bennett, Compton
Marton, Andrew
LeRoy, Mervyn
Wyler, William
Guillermin, John
Winters, Ralph
King Solomon’s Mines (1949/1950)
Quo Vadis? (1951)
Ben Hur (1959)
King Kong (1976)
#20
Meyer, Stephen C.: The law of genre and the music for Ben-Hur. In: Meyer, Stephen C.: Epic sound: Music in postwar Hollywood biblical films. - Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 2015.p. ?P.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Krieg ~ War
Religion ~ Religion
Musik ~ Music
#21
Miller, Howard: The charioteer and the Christ: Ben-Hur in America from the Gilded Age to the culture wars. In: Indiana Magazine of History 104. 2008. No. 2. [?D] pp. 153-175.
Index:
Wallace, Lew[is]
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Religion ~ Religion
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Literatur ~ Literature)
#22
Murphy, Geraldine: Ugly Americans in togas: Imperial anxiety in the Cold War Hollywood epic. In: Journal of Film and Video 56. 2004. No. 3. [Fall] pp. 3-19.
Description:
Discusses William Wyler’s Ben Hur and Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus.
Index:
Wyler, William
Kubrick, Stanley
Ben Hur (1959)
Spartacus (1959/1960)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Krieg ~ War
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
Geschichte: Antike ~ History: Ancient Times
#23
Nackerud, David Duane: Seeing the light: Depictions of religious conversion in popular American films. - ?O: CBN University, M.A. 1989. [Abstract in: Masters Abstracts International 29. 1991. No. 2. p. 180.]
Description:
Discusses, among others, William Wyler’s Ben Hur, Cecil Blount DeMille’s The Sign of the Cross and Henry Koster’s The Robe.
Index:
Wyler, William
DeMille, Cecil Blount
Koster, Henry
Ben Hur (1959)
Sign of the Cross, The (1932)
Robe, The (1953)
USA (United States of America) ~ USA (United States of America)
Religion ~ Religion
#24
Nashawaty, Chris: Swords and sandals and glistening pecs. In: Entertainment Weekly 2011. No. 1160. [June 24] p. 60.
Description:
On DVD editions of various peplum films, among them William Wyler’s Ben Hur, Desmomd Davis’s Clash of the Titans and Kevin Macdonald’s The Eagle.
Index:
Wyler, William
Davis, Desmomd
Macdonald, Kevin
Ben Hur (1959)
Clash of the Titans (1981)
Eagle, The (2011)
Geschichte: Antike ~ History: Ancient Times
DVD ~ DVD
#25
Oldham, Gabriella: "Good stuff" never changes: John D. Dunning. In: First cut: Conversations with film editors. - Berkeley, California; Los Angeles, California; Oxford: University of California Press 1992. pp. 253-268.
Description:
On the editor and his work for Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s Julius Caesar and William Wyler’s Ben Hur. Includes a filmography.
Index:
Dunning, John D.
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Wyler, William
Julius Caesar (1953)
Ben Hur (1959)
#26
Richards, Peter: Whose Hur? In: Film Comment 35. 1999. No. 2. [March/April] pp. 38-42.
Description:
On William Wyler’s classic Ben Hur.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
#27
Rother, Rainer: Ben Hur. In: Filmgenres: Abenteuerfilm. Hrsg. von Bodo Traber und Hans Jürgen Wulff. - Stuttgart: Reclam Verlag 2004. (= Universal-Bibliothek 18404.) pp. 283 ff.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
Abenteuer ~ Adventure
#28
Schillinger, Jens: Elf Oscars auf vier DVDs: William Wylers Ben Hur in einer Collectors Edition. In: EPD Film 23. 2006. No. 5. [May] p. 53.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
DVD ~ DVD
Academy Award ~ Academy Award
#29
Sennett, Robert S.: The light of the past: Hollywood and history. In: Sennett, Robert S.: Setting the scene: The great Hollywood art directors. - New York: Harry N. Abrams 1994. pp. 162-175.
Description:
Discusses, among others, the work of William A. Horning and Edward Carfagno for William Wyler’s Ben Hur.
Index:
Wyler, William
Horning, William A.
Carfagno, Edward
Ben Hur (1959)
Geschichte ~ History
Hollywood ~ Hollywood
#30
Smithouser, Bob: Movie nights for teens: 25 more movies to spark spiritual discussions with your teen. - Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House 2005.
Index:
Wyler, William
Emmerich, Roland
Forster, Marc
Bird, Brad
Jackson, Peter
Shyamalan, M. Night
Conran, Kerry
Hitchcock, Alfred
Raimi, Samuel M.
Ben Hur (1959)
Day After Tomorrow, The (2004)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Incredibles, The (2004)
Lord of the Rings (Filmreihe)
Signs (2002)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Spellbound (1945)
Spider-Man (2002)
Religion ~ Religion
#31
Strykowski, Jason: Epic success: Ben-Hur. In: Palacio 114. 2009. No. 2. [?D] pp. 62-67.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
#32
Sultanik, Aaron: Cinemulacrum: A secret history of film / video, 1960-2010. - Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America 2012.
Description:
Discusses, among others, William Wyler’s Ben Hur and James Cameron’s Avatar.
Index:
Wyler, William
Cameron, James
Ben Hur (1959)
Avatar (2009)
Video ~ Video
#33
Tuszynski, Susan: A Cold War cautionary tale: Heterosexuality and ideology in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur. In: Journal of Popular Film and Television 34. 2006. No. 3. [?D] pp. 116-122.
Index:
Wyler, William
Ben Hur (1959)
Sexualität ~ Sexuality
Politik ~ Politics
Krieg ~ War
#34
Williams, Michael: The idol body: Stars, statuary and the classical epic. In: Film & History 39. 2009. No. 2. [Fall] pp. 39-48.
Description:
On the representation of the male body in historical epics. Discusses especially William Wyler’s Ben Hur and Zack Snyder’s 300.
Index:
Wyler, William
Snyder, Zack
Ben Hur (1959)
300 (2007)
Männer ~ Men
Körper ~ Bodies
Geschichte ~ History
Geschichte: Antike ~ History: Ancient Times
#35
Winchell, Mark Royden: Racing for glory: Fred Niblo’s Ben-Hur (1926) and William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959). In: Winchell, Mark Royden: God, man, and Hollywood: Politically incorrect cinema from The Birth of a Nation to The Passion of the Christ. - Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books 2008. p. ?P.
Index:
Niblo, Fred
Wyler, William
Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1924-1926)
Ben Hur (1959)
Religion ~ Religion
Politik ~ Politics
#36
Winkler, Martin M.: The Roman salute: Cinema, history, ideology. - Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press 2009.
Description:
On the tradition of the Roman salute in history and culture. Discusses, among others, saluting in film, especially in ancient monumental films like Ben Hur, Quo Vadis? or Alexander as well as in the Star Trek films and TV series.
Index:
Wyler, William
LeRoy, Mervyn
Stone, Oliver
Ben Hur (1959)
Quo Vadis? (1951)
Alexander (2004)
Star Trek (Filmreihe)
Geschichte ~ History
Fernsehen ~ Television
Politik ~ Politics
Rom ~ Rome
Geschichte: Antike ~ History: Ancient Times
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