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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Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Murray Pomerance I Jerry and Me 1 Whatever Happened to Jerry Lewis? “That's Amore . . .” 19 Leslie A. Fiedler 2 Being Rupert Pupkin 31 Shawn Levy 2 ...
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. Onscreen he seems an animal out of its cage. Jerry Lewis (r.) with Dorothy Malone (l.) in Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, Paramount, 1955). Frame enlargement. “What we really laughed at ...
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. Introduction Murray Pomerance Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. —King Lear 5.3.390 ONE THING EVERYBODY knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those ...
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. Indeed, the “indifference” and “hostility” were still alive and well on February 19, 2000, when Michael Posner suggested in the Globe and Mail that Lewis might well be “what various ...
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. doesn't know how to behave. “The Kid,” he calls himself, and I say, “L'enfant terrible.” What is the importance and meaning of this fortissimo that Lewis persistently produces? While many ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |