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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... career in motion pictures that attention is paid to him in these pages. That he is a paragon of stand-up comedy, a conductor, a composer, a writer, a singer, and a serious actor of notable talent—as well as the inventor of the video ...
... career of the performer animating the exegesis—to read a character as a direct emanation from an actor always persisting behind or underneath it. Erving Goffman refers to this as the “Doctrine of Natural Expression” (1979, 7). In many ...
... career, Fiedler here once again takes on received wisdom, this time what is for him the politically too-correct view that Lewis's comedy is to be questioned for “making fun” of cripples. This essay, meticulously considering Jerry's work ...
... career in show business from its origins in the 1920s through the many modifications it has seen. Lewis's version, with the protagonist finally performing “Kol Nidre” in clownface, is shown to be peculiar in particular ways that bring ...
... career, Delinquent exhibits all the manifestations of the performer's mature style, but at a time when he had not yet begun to make films of his own. The film reflects contemporary social concerns about what was called the “adolescent ...
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |