Enfant Terrible! : : Jerry Lewis in American Film /

Enfant Terrible! : : Jerry Lewis in American Film / / ed. by Murray Pomerance.

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 ridicul...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Brottman, Mikita,
Bukatman, Scott,
Desser, David,
Fiedler, Leslie,
Fischer, Craig,
Fischer, Lucy,
Gabbard, Krin,
Grant, Barry,
Horton, Andrew,
Hunt, Susan,
Krutnik, Frank,
Landy, Marcia,
Lehman, Peter,
Levy, Shawn,
Polan, Dana,
Pomerance, Murray,
Telotte, J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Pomerance, Murray,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Contributors
  • 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 Performance in Hollywood or Bust
  • 6. The Day the Clown Quit: Jerry Lewis Returns to The 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 Lewis
  • 10. 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 Transformations of Masculinity in The Nutty Professor
  • 14. Working Hard Hardly Working: Labor and Leisure in the Films of Jerry Lewis
  • 15. Hello Deli!: Shtick Meets Teenpic in The Delicate Delinquent
  • 16. The Errant Boy: Morty S. Tashman and the Powers of the Tongue
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index

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