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Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film
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Description for Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film
Paperback. This collection is devoted to one of the most controversial and accomplished figures in 20th-century American cinema. A veteran of virtually every form of show business, Lewis's performances onscreen and the motion pictures he has directed reveal significant filmmaking talents. Editor(s): Pomerance, Murray (Chair, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University, USA). Num Pages: 274 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
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 he has directed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
274
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814767061
SKU
V9780814767061
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99-50
About Pomerance
Murray Pomerance is Chair of the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University, whose edited volumes include Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century, and Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice: Cinemas of Girlhood.
Reviews for Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film
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
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