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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... actor, a dwarf and former circus clown who arrived each day already drunk and got even drunker from the beers he gulped as we sped down the freeway. From the start I had the sense of being in not a real Hollywood but a mythic one that ...
... known 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.
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. but loved and admired by actors and audiences. So, too, in the later nineteenth century, malicious amputees such as Long John Silver and Captain Hook fascinated as well as terrified small ...
... actors in the minstrel shows and Huck Finn to Jim, Ishmael to Queequeg, Natty Bumppo to Chingachgook. These all have a racist, political dimension, since in all of them a white and a nonwhite male, though their people back at home are ...
... actors. It was in the theater that Dean and Jerry entered into their bond, which, like many such theatrical unions, they announced to the world by fusing both their names into one, calling themselves Martin and Lewis. But unlike Abbott ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |