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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... male bonding, of the role of intelligence and stupidity in social life, of illness and diagnosis, of cultural difference, and of the construction of mediated social reality. First, Frank Krutnik's “Sex and Slapstick” explores the ...
... male discussed by Daniel Boyarin. Like many other films of its time, Geisha Boy actively romanticizes and feminizes the Orient—specifically Japan—while establishing Jerry's character as a noteworthy example of an unmilitarized ...
... male much like Martin. The series of movies in which Jerry explored in depth his ill-fated relationship with Dean and Dean's rejection of him— from My Friend Irma (1949) to Hollywood or Bust (1956)—are not only the saddest and funniest ...
... male. The woman is also convinced that it is the nonexistent Dean-figure she really loves. In the end, however, she discovers that she wants and needs someone much more like the unbeautiful professor, and it is that professor she is ...
... male bonding or even race but reality and illusion. This play on what is and what merely seems Murphy made even more complex by announcing to the audience in publicity releases that he himself was a kind of shape-shifter who would be ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |