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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... laughter, I would say—a case of a “hormonally active Jewish youth [indulging] in a Supergoy fantasy not as a luxury but to vicariously compensate for biological deficiencies”; in short, Jewish self-hatred (1984, 197). But whatever ...
... laughter, on the one hand, and the trend in the 1950s and 1960s for deinstitutionalizing both psychoanalysis and mental deficiency in a time of burgeoning public order and control, on the other. The success of Lewis's performances is ...
... laughter and joy. In hopes that they will find the rich accomplishments of Jerry Lewis sufficiently drawn in its pages to suggest new horizons or to open new doors, this book is given to those for whom insight is inseparable from ...
... laughter of everyone else was doubled. To some of his critics it seemed that he did this by exploiting the shameless tendency of us all to be more delighted than dismayed by the calamities that befall others. It seems to me, however ...
... laughter as well as tears. As he explains above, such a double vision of “joy” is very “Balkan.” Even psychologists suggest that laughter can be a healthy and transcending way to deal with pain and horror (Horton 2000, 15). Thus, while ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |