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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... critics it seemed that he did this by exploiting the shameless tendency of us all to be more delighted than dismayed by the calamities that befall others. It seems to me, however, that what we really laughed at in Jerry's films was not ...
... awful lot of show-business titles of varying size and attitude. But I always knew exactly what my intention was: a full-scale, soup-to-nuts, authoritative life with passages of criticism—Richard Ellmann's James Joyce recast 32 SHAWN LEVY.
Jerry Lewis in American Film Murray Pomerance. authoritative life with passages of criticism—Richard Ellmann's James Joyce recast with Jerry Lewis in the lead. It was a vast and emblematic story I was exploring, I reckoned, and I ...
... . To a one, critics were satisfied that I had given Jerry his due and then some, even with the provocation to trash him that he gave me. “Spot-check him on individual topics,” wrote the New York Times, BEING RUPERT PUPKIN 35.
... critic, a sentiment that I bootlessly urged St. Martin's to use in advertising or at least on the paperback edition.) Jerry, naturally, didn't concur with these assessments. His first response was to wag a finger at my publishers ...
Contents
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3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations | 107 |
4 JerryBuilt | 193 |
Works Cited | 256 |
Contributors | 265 |
Index | 269 |