Jerry Lewis
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2009
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03497-8 (ISBN)
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03497-8 (ISBN)
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The premier study of an incomparable American director
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 within frameworks that set up a liberating and exhilarating confusion of roles and norms. The Nutty Professor and The Patsy are especially profound and painful examinations of the difficulty experienced by Lewis's character in reconciling loving himself and being loved by others.
With sharp, concise observations, Chris Fujiwara examines this visionary director of self-referential comedic masterpieces. The book also includes an enlightening interview with Lewis that offers unique commentary on the creation and study of comedy.
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 within frameworks that set up a liberating and exhilarating confusion of roles and norms. The Nutty Professor and The Patsy are especially profound and painful examinations of the difficulty experienced by Lewis's character in reconciling loving himself and being loved by others.
With sharp, concise observations, Chris Fujiwara examines this visionary director of self-referential comedic masterpieces. The book also includes an enlightening interview with Lewis that offers unique commentary on the creation and study of comedy.
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.
CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAN AMERICAN DREAMA Structural CinemaThe Performance of IdentitySaying No to NoOedipus Is No ProblemHow to Undo Things with WordsLewisian SpaceThe Frame and Its ObstructionsLewisian TimeSoundThe Total FilmmakerAN INTERVIEW WITH JERRY LEWISFilmographyBibliographyIndex
Verlagsort | Baltimore |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
ISBN-10 | 0-252-03497-X / 025203497X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-03497-8 / 9780252034978 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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