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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... Cinema Studies titled “Jerry Lewis: Paragon of American Masculinity,” imagining that a small number of scholars might be interested in giving limited consideration to some of what Jerry Lewis manages to accomplish onscreen. I was ...
... cinematic; because the work contains much interesting social critique; and because, as these essays show, Lewis in ... cinema. As a performer, as a director, as an inventor of technology, as a musician, as a writer, indeed, as one of ...
... Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media. According to Iordanova, “The Balkans is not a geographical concept but one that denotes a cultural entity, widely defined by shared Byzantine, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian legacies ...
... cinemas of these countries reflect a complex set of cultural influences that have meant they have a very different look to them than films produced by Hollywood. Even more specifically, we will see that Kusturica's cinematic vision is ...
... cinematic references “borrowed” from the cinemas of the world (Horton 1998, 173). That said, The Time of the Gypsies blends a true 46 ANDREW HORTON.
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |