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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... kind as they are perceptive. I am particularly grateful to Despina Papazoglou Gimbel, Maya Hamilton, Andrew Katz, Joanna Mullins, Edith Alston, Emily Park, and Eric Zinner for helping to make this book. Curtis Maloley has seen this book ...
... kind of denigration. Interestingly, many who focus only on his performances complain that they do not find Jerry Lewis funny, or observe with Andrew Sarris (1968, 244) that he is possessed of an “embarrassingly tinny” and selfrighteous ...
... kind of person “Jerry Lewis” must be in real life. The strange expressions we see need not be generated directly from a hidden (and equally strange) source to seem what they seem, and we need not pursue that “source.” If, too, Jerry ...
... kind of manliness, entirely the wrong kind of expressivity, entirely the wrong kind of bodily discipline, entirely the wrong kind of economy. He does not save enough, or destroy enough; he does not attack (he expresses complexly—and is ...
... kind of screen material is considered in light of psychoanalytic theories of laughter, on the one hand, and the trend in the 1950s and 1960s for deinstitutionalizing both psychoanalysis and mental deficiency in a time of burgeoning ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |