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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... Criticism and interpretation. I. Pomerance, Murray, 1946– PN2287.L435 E54 2002 791.43'028'092—dc21 2002007532 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and ...
... critics silently at night snuck in and discovered what the masses had already abandoned” (Wilde 2001). No collection of essays from a varied group of highly sensitive and perceptive scholars has been devoted to this prodigy's ...
... critic's view more or less in isolation, sometimes abbreviated and sometimes expanded, and virtually always with a single bias. In Lewis's own books he has been a raconteur, not an analyst, as might be expected. The time was ripe—with ...
... criticism resides a lingering analytical deprecation of the analytical type. As a statement about gender, The Nutty Professor signals a difficulty in representing masculinity through a stable and positive ideal. In “Working Hard Hardly ...
... 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 gave me a chance to diversify my act. One night when I confessed before the cameras ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |