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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... filmmakers of the twentieth century. There is indeed a smorgasbord of vilification laid out for Mr. Jerry Lewis ... filmmaker” during the sound era. The uniqueness of this achievement alone deserved sympathetic attention rather than ...
... 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 entertainers—he is a veteran of ...
... filmmakers breathed it like country air. Also displaced historically, many young viewers who see The Nutty Professor or The Bellboy today perk up with the comment that Lewis reminds them of Jim Carrey, while at best this is a reversal ...
... filmmaking of the gay avant-garde artist Jack Smith, who worked contemporaneously to, and sometimes with, Andy Warhol at around the time Hollywood or Bust appeared. The mediated self of Jerry Lewis has led many observers to the ...
... wild or mild. While this is in part a reflection of the awkward transition from youth to adulthood—both for the character and for the performer as filmmaker—the dualism of the character Lewis plays also points to 14 MURRAY POMERANCE.
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |