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. is a veteran of virtually every form of show business, from vaudeville to tummling in the Catskills; stage singing routines; radio; the celebrated cabaret, stage, and television comedy ...
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. character. If one implication of this relentless mediation is that we are doomed never to meet the man, another is that the screen image of Jerry can make sense entirely without our invoking ...
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. one of the paramount students of film in the twentieth century, Jerry ... films, with Lewis's successful tour and Broadway run in “Damn Yankees,” with the prominent feature about him in the ...
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. “Whatever Happened to Jerry Lewis? 'That's Amore ...,'” Leslie Fiedler ... films cannot easily be categorized as either tragedies or melodramas; that Jerry's protagonists find themselves in a ...
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. not only the variations of his screen personae and some of their implications but also the significance of Jerry's multifaceted diegetic presence. In many ways the most accessible and ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |