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Description for Jerry Lewis
Paperback. The premier study of an incomparable American director Series: Contemporary Film Directors. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFB; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 240.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Film Directors
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252076794
SKU
V9780252076794
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About Chris Fujiwara
Chris Fujiwara is the author of The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger and Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.
Reviews for Jerry Lewis
"Excellent."
The New York Times“The most eloquent advocacy [Jerry Lewis has] received on his own shores for decades.”
NBC New York "An incomparable work about one of the 20th century's most misunderstood clowns."
The List "Fujiwara's insights should provoke readers to reassess Lewis' considerable body of work."
Booklist "The first extended critical treatment of Lewis in English that Lewis deserves—including a thoughtful, ... Read more
The New York Times“The most eloquent advocacy [Jerry Lewis has] received on his own shores for decades.”
NBC New York "An incomparable work about one of the 20th century's most misunderstood clowns."
The List "Fujiwara's insights should provoke readers to reassess Lewis' considerable body of work."
Booklist "The first extended critical treatment of Lewis in English that Lewis deserves—including a thoughtful, ... Read more