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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... Labor and Leisure in the Films of Jerry Lewis Dana Polan 15 Hello Deli!: Shtick Meets Teenpic in The Delicate Delinquent Barry Keith Grant 16 The Errant Boy: Morty S. Tashman and the Powers of the Tongue Murray Pomerance Works Cited ...
... labor in Lewis's own productions, with specific focus on The Ladies Man. Polan suggests that Jerry Lewis's films, although belonging to the genre of comedy, are not necessarily grounded in the premise of “funniness.” An important ...
... Labor Day telethon that since the 1960s has collected millions of dollars. But life has not otherwise been kind to Jerry. As he has grown older he has suffered other disasters, including prostate cancer, a heart attack, and a general ...
... Labor Day presides over the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon and whose picture is displayed, between those genteel money-raising orgies, on posters everywhere in this country. On those posters, he who was once accused of slandering the ...
... Labor Day, I am drawn to the telethon like a recovering alcoholic who can't resist thumbing through a wine list. When word of another ill-tempered, politically incorrect Lewisian outburst hits the news wire, I gobble it up, immediately ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |