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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... Gabbard 3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations 7 Sex and Slapstick: The Martin and Lewis Phenomenon 109 Frank Krutnik 8 The Imbecile Chic of Jerry Lewis 123 Mikita Brottman 9 Sick Jokes: Humor and Health in the Work of ix Contents.
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. 9 Sick Jokes: Humor and Health in the Work of Jerry Lewis Lucy Fischer 10 The Geisha Boy: Orientalizing the Jewish Man David Desser 11 Jerry in the City: The Topology of The King of Comedy ...
... humor with particular attention to the role of stupidity and intelligence in Jerry's characterizations in early Martin and Lewis films such as The Stooge (1953). His screen postures and gestures are seen as grotesqueries, in some sense ...
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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 |