An Alternative 'Roman Spectacle': Fragmentation, Invocations of Theatre, and Audience Engagement Strategy in Kalem's 1907 Ben-Hur.
This article addresses the dual function of early twentieth-century film adaptations as both 'fragmented' narrative derivations of nineteenth-century literary and theatrical sources, and as complete, alternative narratives in themselves. This idea will be explored in a case study of the Kalem Compan...
| Publicado en: | Nineteenth Century Theatre & Film Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 201 - 222 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Nov2016
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