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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... Scorsese have become widely recognized, while far too much of Lewis's screen accomplishment has been taken completely for granted not only by the public but also by an aggressively hostile critical establishment. I think there are three ...
... Scorsese's most stunning and most troubling films, The 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 ...
... Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), which contains an account of his relationship with Dean Martin, with their roles reversed: that is, Scorsese cast as the unattractive loser, hitherto portrayed by Jerry himself, Robert De Niro, who ...
... original Jerry Lewis, one of the makers of that mulatto culture that is America's gift to itself and the rest of the world. Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, Twentieth WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JERRY LEWIS? 29.
... Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, Twentieth Century Fox, 1983). Frame enlargement. 2 Being Rupert Pupkin Shawn Levy FROM THE TIME I. Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) prepares to let loose on the presuming schmuck.
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |