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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... Lewis? “That's Amore . . .” 19 Leslie A. Fiedler 2 Being Rupert Pupkin 31 Shawn Levy 2 Jerry Lewis, Faces Off 3 ... Martin and Lewis Phenomenon 109 Frank Krutnik 8 The Imbecile Chic of Jerry Lewis 123 Mikita Brottman 9 Sick Jokes: Humor ...
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. is a veteran of virtually ... Martin that lasted exactly ten years, from July 25, 1946, until July 25 ... Martin, and in more than thirty others since (as well as dramatic television ...
... Lewis persistently produces? While many whom he makes uncomfortable want to know “Why can't he clean up his act?” I ... Martin and Lewis vehicles, domestication was blatantly present in the figure of the “cool” Dean Martin.) If Jerry ...
... Lewis something of a “flaming creature,” calling to mind the filmmaking of the gay avant-garde artist Jack Smith ... Martin and Lewis that audiences of cabaret, television, and film had during the 1940s and 1950s, he suggests, was that ...
... Lewis's most stunning and most troubling performances onscreen—and a performance to which I believe insufficient attention has been paid—is given in one of Martin Scorsese's most stunning and most troubling films, The King of Comedy ...
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |