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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... celebrity. Jerry Lewis, with his totally mediated self, creates the perfect incarnation of Jerry Langford, a man whose every presence is a distance. Scott Bukatman considers Jerry in light of Marshall McLuhan's analysis—contemporary ...
... celebrity announcer who every Labor Day presides over the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon and whose picture is displayed, between those genteel money-raising orgies, on posters everywhere in this country. On those posters, he who was once ...
... celebrity but also a 'star' in the world of humanity.” Jerry made a copy of the letter and then—in an idiosyncratic typescript familiar to me from having read scores of his memos in the papers he donated to the University of Southern ...
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Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |