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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... film work) that a hypernerd like Julius Kelp might actually metamorphose into a maestro of suaveness like Buddy Love is hardly in itself a yuk. Robert Leslie Liebman sees here, indeed—meandering quite a ... show business, 2 MURRAY POMERANCE.
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. is a veteran of virtually every form of show business, from vaudeville to tummling in the Catskills; stage singing routines; radio; the celebrated cabaret, stage, and television comedy ...
... show business from its origins in the 1920s through the many modifications it has seen. Lewis's version, with the protagonist finally performing “Kol Nidre” in clownface, is shown to be peculiar in particular ways that bring new light ...
... film is being made for theatrical distribution or for television. But very few people, even in show business, know that the inventor of the monitor, now commonly called the video assist, was Jerry Lewis.” (2002, 3) 2. In this light ...
... Film, I had rejected a proposed article about him. But I knew he was a plenty ripe subject for a book. Off the top of my ... show-business titles of varying size and attitude. But I always knew exactly what my intention was: a full-scale ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |