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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... figure of the “cool” Dean Martin.) If Jerry Lewis onscreen frightens many viewers because he is so out of control, we must ask who demands this control, for whose ends it is so precious that pleasure must never be derived from ...
... figure touching on the deepest roots of the contemporary personality—the shifting population, urban angst, the heroically multiracial. As he has done in a long and esteemed career, Fiedler here once again takes on received wisdom, this ...
... figure she really loves. In the end, however, she discovers that she wants and needs someone much more like the unbeautiful professor, and it is that professor she is about to marry when the movie ends. This seemed to me such a totally ...
... figure or a terminal victim of muscular dystrophy but instead a grossly fat, aging man destined apparently to get even fatter— a disability at which it is possible to laugh without stirring up the strong negative reactions prompted by ...
... figure worth its regard. Had I been so awful as all that? Or had a lifetime of pokes and prods by a largely condescending press conditioned him to lash out with peremptory strikes at the merest whiff of negativity? I soon had lunch with ...
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |