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Aug 18, 2022 · He finally signed a contract with the more open-minded Famous Players-Lasky, which quickly decided the “exotic” young Italian would make a perfect Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan for The Sheik, their planned film version of Edith M. Hull’s wildly successful romance novel.
Dec 21, 2020 · From under his headdress, a thick veil gently flutters at the sides of his face, highlighting his classically beautiful features. He is Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan (Rudolph Valentino), who is next framed in an extreme long shot: in the exact middle of the frame, the obvious focus for the viewer’s attention, he gallops forwards.
- Elisabetta Girelli
- 2020
Dec 21, 2020 · Notably, none of this physical or mental disability is present in the character of Ahmed Ben Hassan, the sheik himself. Indeed, the only men who seemed to have been visibly physically active during the war were the Arabs, led by T. E. Lawrence (Teo 101).
- jay Dixon
- 2020
- Feminist Responses to The Novel
- E.M. Hull’s The Sheik and World War I
- Gender, Whiteness, and Imperialism in The Middle East
- The Sheik in America
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
The Sheik elicited a polarized and visceral reaction upon publication in 1919. Billie Melman (90) has claimed that its sales surpassed all other bestsellers at the time; yet while it achieved instant cult status among its mainly female readers, contemporary literary critics and the self-appointed guardians of social morality were appalled, dismissi...
Edith Maude Henderson was born in 1880, the daughter of a New York shipowner and his Canadian wife. As a child she traveled widely with her parents, even visiting Algeria—the setting of her sheik novels. In 1899 she married Percy Winstanley Hull in London, and the couple moved to Derbyshire in the early 1900s where Percy Hull became an agricultural...
The Middle East not only invoked the plethora of ideas about the Orient that had been circulating in Britain for the last few centuries; in Britain, the North African desert also conjured ideas about noble Bedouin as “true” Arabs (in contrast to their much-derided town counterparts) as well as memories of European women who had found in the desert ...
Even before the publication of Hull’s The Sheikin the United States, American popular culture was already well-acquainted with a commodified, consumable Orient that was paradoxically modern in its love of exotic primitivism. As Holly Edwards has shown, American artists began to incorporate Middle Eastern themes into their paintings from the late ni...
The Sheik was one of the most important popular cultural artifacts produced in the twentieth century, a text whose influence is still evident today in countless songs, romance novels, films, television series, comics, cartoons, and in the very transformation of the connotations associated with the word “sheik” itself. Today, however, what remains o...
Adams, Michael C.C. The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War I. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990. Print. Anderson, Rachel. The Purple Heart Throbs: The Subliterature of Love. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. Print. August, Melissa. “Sheikhs and the Serious Blogger.” Time.com.Time Life Group, 22 August 2005. Web. Ar...
- Hsu-Ming Teo
- 2010
Once he was cast as the powerful, yet sexually-on-display Ahmed Ben Hassan in The Sheik (George Melford, 1921), Rudolph Valentino rose to super-stardom, the bearer of a conflicted image defined by a fragmented patriarchal discourse.
Fearing her husband’s drunken beatings, Ahmed’s mother fled into the desert while pregnant and took shelter with a sheik named Ahmed Ben Hassan who adopted the boy as his own, giving young Ahmed a lifelong vendetta against the British.
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Plot. Rudolph Valentino as Sheik Ahmed and Agnes Ayres as Lady Diana. In the North Africa town of Biskra, headstrong Lady Diana Mayo (Agnes Ayres) refuses a marriage proposal because she believes it would be the end of her independence. Against her brother's wishes, she is planning a month-long trip into the desert, escorted only by natives.
