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.
... social relations, and also a play about film, at the same time being both patently preposterous and also completely true: What timid bookworm is not quietly humming “That Old Black Magic” in his heart of hearts and wishing to be a movie ...
... , therefore unblessed, even morally twisted. The syntax of his speech is likely to be warped, his social response apparently miscalculated, his needs uncivilized. Jerry doesn't know how to behave. “The Kid,” he calls himself, INTRODUCTION ...
... social order and the lengths to which we are willing to go to create and enforce it. Steven Shaviro sees Lewis's comedy intrinsically linked to the social: he suggests, indeed, that it “seems oddly based on an exaggerated respect for social ...
... social organization and therefore, ultimately, of the control of the powerless by the powerful. In Lewis's work, discipline has no inherent value: it again and again reveals subjugation, since it is learned with the end of serving power ...
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |