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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... Errand Boy (1961); the extension and duration of the gurney escapade in the finale of The Disorderly Orderly (1964); the extent of Buddy Love's manipulation and of Julius Kelp's introversion in The Nutty Professor; the zany ...
... Errand Boy (1961), I suggest a reading of a fascinating film either too little studied or too swiftly passed over as simple parody. We are presented in The Errand Boy with a systematic critique of capitalist culture as engendering and ...
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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 |