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Jerry Lewis / Chris Fujiwara.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fujiwara, Chris.
- Series:
- Contemporary film directors.
- Contemporary film directors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture producers and directors--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Lewis, Jerry, 1926---Criticism and interpretation.
- Lewis, Jerry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Well known for his slapstick comedic style, Jerry Lewis has also delighted worldwide movie audiences with a directing career spanning five decades. One of American cinema's great innovators, Lewis made unmistakably personal films that often focused on an ideal masculine image and an anarchic, manic acting out of the inability to assume this image. Films such as The Bellboy, The Errand Boy, Three on a Couch, and The Big Mouth present a series of thematic variations on this tension, in which such questions as how to be a man, how to be popular, and how to maintain relationships are posed within frameworks that set up a liberating and exhilarating confusion of roles and norms. The Nutty Professor and The Patsy are especially profound and painful examinations of the difficulty experienced by Lewis's character in reconciling loving himself and being loved by others. With sharp, concise observations, Chris Fujiwara examines this visionary director of self-referential comedic masterpieces. The book also includes an enlightening interview with Lewis that offers unique commentary on the creation and study of comedy.
- Contents:
- An American dream
- A structural cinema
- The performance of identity
- Saying no to no
- Oedipus is no problem
- How to undo things with words
- Lewisian space
- The frame and its obstructions
- Lewisian time
- Sound
- The total filmmaker
- An interview with Jerry Lewis.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes filmography.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613077370
- 9781283077378
- 128307737X
- 9780252091346
- 0252091345
- OCLC:
- 743408768
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