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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... television reviewers routinely vilified his work before he even directed his first film” (2000, 15–16)—a reception reserved for few, if any, American filmmakers of the twentieth century. There is indeed a smorgasbord of vilification ...
... television comedy performances with Dean Martin that lasted exactly ten years, from July 25, 1946, until July 25, 1956; many appearances on television, on the legitimate stage, on casino stages, and on the lecture circuit; and his ...
... television of The Jazz Singer (1927), “The Day the Clown Quit,” traces the roots of the characterization of a cantor's son who finds a career in show business from its origins in the 1920s through the many modifications it has seen ...
... television show “Ben Casey,” suggesting that underlying much of Lewis's work is a fascinating tension “between comic distance and empathetic intimacy.” Being a comedian, she suggests, is often expressly not about being empathetic, nice ...
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |