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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... Geisha Boy: Orientalizing the Jewish Man David Desser 11 Jerry in the City: The Topology of The King of Comedy J. P. Telotte 12 Terminal Idiocy (The comedian is the message) Scott Bukatman 4 Jerry-Built 13 “The Inner Man”: Mind, Body ...
... Geisha Boy (1958) sets the precedent of seeing this transitional film not only in terms of its Orientalizing context but also as a reflection of the “feminized” Jewish male discussed by Daniel Boyarin. Like many other films of its time, ...
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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 |