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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... role” and in which “state houses and churches seem to be permanently closed.” Shawn Levy's “Being Rupert Pupkin” is a bittersweet reflection on his own experience writing King of Comedy. Jerry Lewis, it would seem, is a figure who has ...
... 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 intense and immensely ...
... role of stupidity and intelligence in Jerry's characterizations in early Martin and Lewis films such as The Stooge (1953). His screen postures and gestures are seen as grotesqueries, in some sense imitations of mental deficiency, and ...
... role I lived offstage, that of an anti-academic academic and a part-time social critic—called by the producers of such programs a “nut,” as were Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer, who were their first choices. But finally these shows ...
... role. State houses and churches seem to be permanently closed, and the only well-lit places are the classrooms, gymnasiums, laboratories, and auditoriums of seedy second-rate colleges flanked by sleazy nightclubs, bars, and soda parlors ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |