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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Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. for Eva in memory The impression of the comic will be produced . .
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. The impression of the comic will be produced . . . when we are shown the soul tantalised by the needs of the body. —Henri Bergson Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Murray Pomerance I ...
... comic books in Artists and Models; Kreton's cloying earnestness in Visit to a Small Planet (1960). A second obstruction to watching Lewis carefully derives from what I would call “backstaging,” the viewer's tendency to read screen ...
... comic distance and empathetic intimacy.” Being a comedian, she suggests, is often expressly not about being empathetic, nice, kind, or genteel, and from that perspective it is revealing to study these two incidences of Jerry performing ...
... comic absent from the culture of our own country. In fact, the minstrel show, a form of popular theater unique to America, began with “Daddy” Rice “Jumping Jim Crow,” which is to say, doing a wild dance that he claimed was based on that ...
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2 Jerry Lewis Faces Off | 41 |
3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |