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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... social position he had exploited, any act of performance on his part at all. To give him only a backstage reading, then, is to discredit his professionalism, while a respectful approach to Jerry Lewis's work as professional would ...
... social critique; and because, as these essays show, Lewis in fresh ways gives us so much to consider about the human condition. What should seem salient now is that earlier critical attention so frequently managed not to see this ...
... social processes, a structured world, and a set of human relations. Part 3, “Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations,” attempts to look at Lewis in terms of ideological or cultural formulations. In Lewis's career, in his ...
... social formulation of humor with particular attention to the role of stupidity and intelligence in Jerry's characterizations in early Martin and Lewis films such as The Stooge (1953). His screen postures and gestures are seen as ...
... social dominance. Polan also examines the “comedy of success in work,” in which the job is typically carried out to excess. He shows how in Jerry Lewis's films there is a “constant emphasis” on the “moral benefits of labor.” In “Hello ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |