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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... Nutty Professor Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt 14 Working Hard Hardly Working: Labor and Leisure in the Films of Jerry Lewis Dana Polan 15 Hello Deli!: Shtick Meets Teenpic in The Delicate Delinquent Barry Keith Grant 16 The Errant Boy ...
... Nutty Professor (1963) (the most widely recognized and remembered moment in all Lewis's film work) that a hypernerd like Julius Kelp might actually metamorphose into a maestro of suaveness like Buddy Love is hardly in itself a yuk ...
... Nutty Professor and The Ladies Man (1961), both by Lewis, and The King of Comedy (1983) by Martin Scorsese have become widely recognized, while far too much of Lewis's screen accomplishment has been taken completely for granted not only ...
... 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 Lewis carefully derives from ...
... Nutty Professor remakes with Eddie Murphy, although he was involved in producing them) is not of our time, in the particular sense that its aesthetic, often its dialogue, is innocent of so much that young contemporary viewers take as a ...
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |