Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American FilmMurray Pomerance NYU Press, 2002 - 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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... Appearing belligerent, impolite, or hostile in a particular social context—during an interview, say—he is readable onscreen as a man closeting deep hostilities under the questionable and vulnerable fabric of a shabby comedy. Although ...
... appear in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), which contains an account of his relationship with Dean Martin, with their roles reversed: that is, Scorsese cast as the unattractive loser, hitherto portrayed by Jerry himself ...
... appearing simultaneously as male and female, old and young. This kind of age- and gender-bending, as well as the trifling with illusion, seems more characteristic of high art than of pop. Certainly, it is to be found in the Mannerist ...
... to be the single-handed accomplishment of Murphy, who was cool enough to appear before the cameras pretending to be a white man pretending to be black—or rather, perhaps, pretending to be a Jew pretending to 28 LESLIE A. FIEDLER.
... appears to be a fish out of water. Axel himself is such a creature, to be sure, and is identified as such when first we meet him as a young man with a special affinity to fish out of water, since it is his job to haul them up from the ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |