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In New Zealand, The Sheik toured around local cinemas and ran for long seasons in the major cities, Professor Hunter says. “Such was its popularity that the term ‘sheik’ came into common usage to describe any young man with less-than-honourable intentions towards a young woman.
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That the novel was a sensation in the 1920s is no secret, but what might surprise some readers is that the captivity-fantasy narrative formula and the sheik hero made famous by the novel and its film adaptation is still going strong. Publishers Mills & Boon has released more than 300 titles based on the sheik (or sheikh) in the past decade – and mo...
More recent incarnations of The Sheik and its film adaptation in the 21st century include Anne Herries’ novel The Sheikh (2002) and Harry L. Dreller’s, Valentino’s Curse: The Sheik Returns(2010). Victoria Vane’s steamy mashup The Sheik Retold(2013), claims to fling “the bedroom door wide open” on Diana and Ahmed while moderating some of the text’s ...
Scholars have long recognised in The Sheik an accessible expression of female sexuality otherwise rare for its time. But it’s hard to deny The Sheik’s immensely troubling narrative whereby Diana comes to fall passionately in love with the “lawless savage who had taken her to satisfy a passing fancy and who had treated her with merciless cruelty”. T...
Dec 21, 2020 · A pivotal sequence in The Sheik (George Melford, 1921), a screen adaptation of E.M. Hull’s novel, acts as a microcosm of the film. We see a lone figure on horseback in the middle of a vast desert; as the camera gets closer to the rider, a medium close-up reveals a man attired in flowing robes.
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- 2020
Feb 7, 2013 · While The Sheik is not categorised as melodrama by the AFI I have chosen it for several reasons. Firstly my research focuses on Hollywood stars, although admittedly mostly star couples, and Valentino was a huge star. This film ‘made him’ as it was very popular.
Aug 18, 2022 · The Sheik was shot on location in the Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, where the desert dunes were a good stand-in for Northern Africa–or its romanticized version. The studio set up two large camps full of extras, making the production feel like a large-scale desert expedition.
Dec 21, 2020 · Starting with contemporary contexts, the popular and critical reception of The Sheik is introduced, along with its literary antecedents and film adaptation. The essay then outlines scholarly work in three key areas: gender, race and the postcolonial, and the text’s relationship to modernism.
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Dec 21, 2020 · In this interview, Fielding discusses reading The Sheik and its legacy, how living in the Middle East affected her views of sheikh romance, and how she brings realism to her sheikh novels. [1] Contributors to this special issue vary in their spelling of sheik/sheikh.
