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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... Kelp might actually metamorphose into a maestro of suaveness like Buddy Love is hardly in itself a yuk. Robert Leslie Liebman sees here, indeed—meandering quite a long way from laughter, I would say—a case of a “hormonally active Jewish ...
... Kelp-toLove transmutation—all this, and to an extreme degree. Further, when he whines and wheedles, screeches and drones, the amplitude of his vocalization, as recorded, exaggerates volume and pitch so that his expression is an acoustic ...
... Kelp's introversion in The Nutty Professor; the zany unboundedness of Eugene Fullstack's adoration for comic books in Artists and Models; Kreton's cloying earnestness in Visit to a Small Planet (1960). A second obstruction to watching ...
... Kelp into Buddy and back again, Lehman and Hunt offer some challenging conclusions about our deepest convictions about masculinity as reflected by this film. While the predilection for the body guy is both widespread and critically ...
... Kelp, while the Deanlike character, called Buddy Love, is not the real antagonist he seems, only an imaginary alter ego. When the film starts, however, nobody seems to know this, not even the professor himself, who feels that to win the ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |