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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... Delicate Delinquent Barry Keith Grant 16 The Errant Boy: Morty S. Tashman and the Powers of the Tongue Murray Pomerance Works Cited Contributors Index 137 153 167 181 195 211 225 239 256 265 269 Acknowledgments This book was conceived ...
... Delicate Delinquent (1957), Jerry running away from Sandra Bernhard in The King of Comedy—he seems without grace, therefore unblessed, even morally twisted. The syntax of his speech is likely to be warped, his social response apparently ...
... Delicate Delinquent with a view to establishing the largely unheralded significance of this film directed by Don McGuire (under the tacit control of Jerry Lewis). Pivotal in Lewis's career, Delinquent exhibits all the manifestations of ...
... Delicate Delinquent is its foregrounding of the tensions between contradictory versions of masculine identity and thus its dispelling the notion that we can read Lewis's films and performances as being grounded in realism. Finally, in ...
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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 |