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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... viewer is compelled to call laughable. If Lewis is importantly a comedian, he is more importantly a filmmaker. As this is written, Jerry Lewis is approaching his seventy-sixth birthday and living in apparent retirement from screen ...
... 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 threatening it. Jerry Lewis's screen intemperateness raises the issue of social ...
... viewer's tendency to read screen performances in terms of information or theory about the extradiegetic career of the performer animating the exegesis—to read a character as a direct emanation from an actor always persisting behind or ...
... viewers of these films. Jerry's work (in which I hesitate to include the Nutty Professor remakes with Eddie Murphy, although he was involved in producing them) is not of our time, in the particular sense that its aesthetic, often its ...
... viewer and to take pleasure in knowing that many of Lewis's films are at least in current video release. The frontispiece images with each chapter are intended not so much as documentations as clues. Lewis is a INTRODUCTION 15.
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |