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Enfant Terrible! : Jerry Lewis in American Film / edited by Murray Pomerance.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lewis, Jerry, 1926---Criticism and interpretation.
- Lewis, Jerry.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : New York University Press, [2002]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. Enfant Terrible! Jerry Lewis in American Film is the first comprehensive collection devoted to one of the most controversial and accomplished figures in twentieth-century American cinema. A veteran of virtually every form of show business, Lewis's performances onscreen and the motion pictures h
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Jerry and Me; 1 Whatever Happened to Jerry Lewis? "That's Amore . . ."; 2 Being Rupert Pupkin; 2 Jerry Lewis, Faces Off; 3 Dreaming of Jerry Lewis's Arizona Dream; 4 Jerry Agonistes: An Obscure Object of Critical Desire; 5 Flaming Creature: Jerry Lewis and Screen Performancein Hollywood or Bust; 6 The Day the Clown Quit: Jerry Lewis Returns toThe Jazz Singer's Roots; 3 Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations; 7 Sex and Slapstick: The Martin and Lewis Phenomenon; 8 The Imbecile Chic of Jerry Lewis
- 9 Sick Jokes: Humor and Health in the Work of Jerry Lewis10 The Geisha Boy: Orientalizing the Jewish Man; 11 Jerry in the City: The Topology of The King of Comedy; 12 Terminal Idiocy (The comedian is the message); 4 Jerry-Built; 13 "The Inner Man": Mind, Body, and Transformationsof Masculinity in The Nutty Professor; 14 Working Hard Hardly Working: Labor and Leisurein the Films of Jerry Lewis; 15 Hello Deli!: Shtick Meets Teenpic inThe Delicate Delinquent; 16 The Errant Boy: Morty S. Tashman and the Powersof the Tongue; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-264) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814768341
- 0814768342
- 9780814768624
- 0814768628
- OCLC:
- 780425929
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