Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American FilmMurray Pomerance NYU Press, 2002 - 274 pages 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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... Bukatman 4 Jerry-Built 13 “The Inner Man”: Mind, Body, and Transformations of Masculinity in The Nutty Professor Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt 14 Working Hard Hardly Working: Labor and Leisure in the Films of Jerry Lewis Dana Polan 15 ...
... Bukatman has noted [1991], being paralyzed), irritating (even debilitating), rude, untutored, uncivilized, inconsiderate, and often ugly—note the dental closeups in that Kelp-toLove transmutation—all this, and to an extreme degree ...
... Bukatman considers Jerry in light of Marshall McLuhan's analysis—contemporary with many of Jerry's own productions in the early 1960s—of society changing from a mechanical, industrial, and local paradigm to a global and electronic one ...
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Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |