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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... popular critical consciousness that could point to social structure as patriarchal had not yet been fostered. Society was patriarchal, to be sure, but to say so was a radical act. We might now look back, say, at Hollywood or Bust ...
... popular relationship between Dean and Jerry in terms of its legibility as a continuing instantiation of liveness. The sense of Martin and Lewis that audiences of cabaret, television, and film had during the 1940s and 1950s, he suggests ...
... popular theater unique to America, began with “Daddy” Rice “Jumping Jim Crow,” which is to say, doing a wild dance that he claimed was based on that performed by an old black slave so crippled by rheumatism it was both wonderful and ...
... popularity,” hoping to be accepted, applauded, and loved not for what others believe and they fear they really are—namely, wimps—but as sleek and loveable hunks, which they hope they can become or at least seem to become by finding the ...
... popular minstrel show, in which nothing is as it seems and the audience knows it. Those who pretend to be black turn out to be white, and those who come on in the garb of women turn out to be men, and that which seems a typical Southern ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |