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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... comedian is the message) Scott Bukatman 4 Jerry-Built 13 “The Inner Man”: Mind, Body, and Transformations of Masculinity in The Nutty Professor Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt 14 Working Hard Hardly Working: Labor and Leisure in the Films ...
... comedian to rise from mere performer to (in his own, quite accurate phrase) “total filmmaker” during the sound era. The uniqueness of this achievement alone deserved sympathetic attention rather than the hostility or indifference it met ...
... comedian, he is more importantly a filmmaker. As this is written, Jerry Lewis is approaching his seventy-sixth birthday and living in apparent retirement from screen performance. While he is perhaps the most versatile of modern-day ...
... comedian, she suggests, is often expressly not about being empathetic, nice, kind, or genteel, and from that perspective it is revealing to study these two incidences of Jerry performing a medical role without the capacity to be as ...
... comedian: to keep the audience laughing all through his movies and to leave them feeling happy. Since the kind of comedy he wrote was slapstick farce, in which violence is present everywhere, this was not easy to do. Yet he somehow ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
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Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |