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Jerry Lewis Paperback - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Chris Fujiwara


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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.

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  • Title Jerry Lewis
  • Author Chris Fujiwara
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press
  • Date 2009-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780252076794 / 0252076796
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.4 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 1.02 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Lewis, Jerry - Criticism and interpretation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009026686
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2009, Page 18
  • Choice, 05/01/2010, Page 0

About the author

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.
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