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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... onscreen. I was startled to see that the response was more far-reaching and deeper than I had expected, and this project took shape shortly thereafter. It could never have been imagined without the stalwart encouragement of David Desser ...
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. Onscreen he seems an animal out of its cage. Jerry Lewis (r.) with Dorothy Malone (l.) in Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, Paramount, 1955). Frame enlargement. “What we really laughed at ...
... onscreen I am often stunned to reflection and meditation. Moved to laugh or not, I see something startling and suggestive, even profound. For example, the idea conveyed by the central transformation in The Nutty Professor (1963) (the ...
... Onscreen, then, he seems an animal out of its cage—a monkey, some have said, and as he bombards Fred Clark and Janet Leigh with light bulbs from high up in a chandelier in Living It Up (1954), the epithet seems to fit. But Jerry is, to ...
... onscreen in a hampered way (something he was doing long before being involved with the Muscular Dystrophy Association), he is read as “imitating” or “mocking” those children and undermining his sincerity as the telethon's host. We ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |