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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... audience and many who will read these pages, Jerry is similarly personal before he is a subject of analysis, intimate before he is a phenomenon to study at scholarly remove, it seems appropriate to begin with these particular ...
... audience. Krin Gabbard's exploration of the rarely considered (and even more rarely seen) Lewis adaptation for television of The Jazz Singer (1927), “The Day the Clown Quit,” traces the roots of the characterization of a cantor's son ...
... audiences of the time “a dizzying array of emotional and covertly erotic intensities between men.” Next, Mikita Brottman's “Imbecile Chic of Jerry Lewis” examines the social formulation of humor with particular attention to the role of ...
... these is Shakespeare's Richard III, to whom he gave a hunchback he never really had but who turned out to be not just hated and feared but loved and admired by actors and audiences. So, too, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JERRY LEWIS? 21.
... audience laughing all through his movies and to leave them feeling happy. Since the kind of comedy he wrote was slapstick farce, in which violence is present everywhere, this was not easy to do. Yet he somehow always managed to make the ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |