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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... 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, and Transformations of Masculinity in The Nutty Professor Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt 14 Working ...
... comedy performances with Dean Martin that lasted exactly ten years, from July 25, 1946, until July 25, 1956; many ... King of Comedy (1983) by Martin Scorsese have become widely recognized, while far too much of Lewis's screen ...
... King of Comedy: The Life and Art of Jerry Lewis and Frank Krutnik's Inventing Jerry Lewis (both referred to substantially by authors in this book)—and some examinations appeared in book form several years ago, including Robert ...
... King of Comedy. Jerry Lewis, it would seem, is a figure who has haunted this author, not only because of the welldocumented falling-out that took place on Jerry's yacht while Levy was finishing the biography but also because Lewis ...
... King of Comedy. J. P. Telotte's essay “Jerry in the City” examines Jerry in this film as a figuration of what Paul Virilio calls “derealization,” the cultural development through which the screen has come to represent the locus of ...
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |