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. one of the paramount students of film in the twentieth century, Jerry Lewis has simply failed to exist for the critical community as he does in these pages. Some recent monographs have ...
... film, most critically in the love and conflict between Lewis and Johnny Depp. In this film the Lewis performance incarnates the long-lived presence of the “holy fool,” raising our attention to the delicate interface between pragmatics ...
... films and screen performances bring to light performance and charade, skin and substance, his work is also reflective of social processes, a structured world, and a set of human relations. Part 3, “Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations ...
... film not only in terms of its Orientalizing context but also as a reflection of the “feminized” Jewish male discussed by Daniel Boyarin. Like many other films of its time, Geisha Boy actively romanticizes and feminizes the Orient ...
... films, The King of Comedy. J. P. Telotte's essay “Jerry in the City” examines Jerry in this film as a figuration of what Paul Virilio calls “derealization,” the cultural development through which the screen has come to represent the ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |