Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American FilmMurray Pomerance NYU Press, 1.11.2002 г. - 274 страници The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at best a riddle, not one of us. Lewis is someone we take profound pleasure in excluding, if not ridiculing. |
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... French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers in that Brigitte-Bardot-and-Jean-Paul-Sartre fantasyland across the sea. Those French, yes, understand him, while over here—where the buffalo roam and John Wayne walks softly and ...
... French reaction to Lewis but serious considerations as well from Britain, Italy, and Germany, Landy suggests how Lewis's films are regarded “as an assault on American culture and politics, exposing a banality that masks more aggressive ...
... French defenders, who defended him on aesthetic grounds rather than on the ethical ones on which he was condemned in his own country. They seem not to have been aware of what I would have pointed out: that the portrayal of cripples as ...
... French reputation, probably the single biggest cliché about both the career of Jerry Lewis and the cultural tastes of the Gallic people. For sure, I thought when dreaming at the keyboard of the riches that would accrue to me as the ...
... French short The Red Balloon (1956), Gone with the Wind (1939), and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959) to Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922) and old Hollywood silent comedies. Most important, however, is the casting ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |