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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... fathers. But in Victorian England and America there was a sentimental backlash against the negative portrayal of the disabled as vicious and ridiculous. This created a vacuum that was filled to overflowing by a third way of presenting ...
... father. Although he boasted constantly about his rosy prospects in the theater, he always seemed to end up working as an extra salesman. His father's habitual failure must have haunted Jerry and fueled in him a relentless desire to ...
... fathers and grandfathers by making it “getting the girls.” The shift from singular to plural, however, makes no real difference, since whether they strive to have and to hold just one woman until death do them part or to bed down many ...
... part son, husband, father, lover, employee, business partner, boss, elder statesman, crank, crab, and icon—a man like all men, maybe, and yet undeniably one of a kind. PART II JERRY LEWIS, FACES OFF A badge of maturity: 40 SHAWN LEVY.
... father figure, a hero, and a “holy fool” in a film that is much closer to being a Balkan absurdist comedy than a Hollywood slapstick farce like the comedies Lewis became famous for. His biographer Shawn Levy agrees that in this phase of ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |