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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... actor of notable talent—as well as the inventor of the video assist,1 now a commonplace in the strategy of studio and location shooting—may deflect attention from the sheer volume and fascination of his screen work: appearances in ...
... actor always persisting behind or underneath it. Erving Goffman refers to this as the “Doctrine of Natural Expression” (1979, 7). In many ways Jerry Lewis can be taken as a paradigm. For example, Jerry is host of a telethon that has ...
... actor, while Lewis's multifaceted and unpredictable style in Hollywood structures a performance that “threaten[s] to reduce the tropes of traditional narrative organization (classical Hollywood storytelling rules, the oedipal narrative ...
... acting in the scene. The video camera on the set is now, according to Peter Bogdanovich, “a standard part of the production kit, whether the film is being made for theatrical distribution or for television. But very few people, even in ...
... actors to create them. Although some of these jobs required skills I did not have, there were two I felt at least ... actor, since my performances in several amateur productions and a semi-pro off-Broadway one had been favorably ...
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |