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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Named Person: | Jerry Lewis; Jerry Lewis; Jerry Lewis; Jerry Lewis; Jerry Lewis |
Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Murray Pomerance |
ISBN: | 0814767052 9780814767054 0814767060 9780814767061 |
OCLC Number: | 49805395 |
Description: | xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Whatever happened to Jerry Lewis? : "that's Amore ..." / Leslie A. Fiedler -- Being Rupert Pupkin / Shawn Levy -- Dreaming of Jerry Lewis's Arizona dream / Andrew Horton -- Jerry Agonistes : an obscure object of critical desire / Marcia Landy -- Flaming creature : Jerry Lewis and screen performance in Hollywood or Bust / Craig Fischer -- Day the clown quit : Jerry Lewis returns to The Jazz Singer's roots / Krin Gabbard -- Sex and slapstick : the Martin and Lewis phenomenom / Frank Krutnik -- Imbecile chic of Jerry Lewis / Mikita Brottman -- Sick jokes : humor and health in the work of Jerry Lewis / Lucy Fischer -- Geisha Boy : orientalizing the Jewish man / David Desser -- Jerry in the city : the topology of The King of Comedy / J.P. Telotte -- Terminal idiocy (the comedian is the message) / Scott Bukatman -- "Inner man" : mind, body, and transformations of masculinity in The Nutty Professor / Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt -- Working hard hardly working : labor and leisure in the films of Jerry Lewis / Dana Polan -- Hello deli! : shtick meets teenpic in The Delicate Delinquent / Barry Keith Grant -- Errant boy : Morty S. Tashman and the powers of the tongue / Murray Pomerance. |
Responsibility: | edited by Murray Pomerance. |
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Abstract:
A witty and provocative re-evaluation of the phenomenon known as Jerry Lewis, an accomplished yet controversial figure in American cinema.
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These original, varied approaches are the heftiest appreciation of Lewis in English... Recommended. * Booklist * A witty, provocative, and necessary re-evaluation of the phenomenon known as Jerry Lewis. I myself have loved and despised Jerry, often both at the same time; I needed this book to tell me why. -- David Cronenberg Read more...

