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- catalog abstract ""Frank Krutnik shows that Jerry Lewis has consistently acted as a transgressive figure in U.S. popular culture. Drawing on films, rare television shows, recordings, trade reviews, magazine articles, biographies, and documentaries, Krutnik reads Lewis's extreme physical comedy and multifaceted star persona as mediated responses to cultural anxieties about the body, identity, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class. He discusses Lewis's partnership with Dean Martin in the late 1940s and early 1950s, exploring how their performances elaborated on a wartime theme of male bonding. Examining such early '60s solo works as The Bellboy, The Nutty Professor, and The Patsy, Krutnik explores the ways in which Lewis both dismantled the conventions of film comedy and manipulated the codes of his public identity. Charting the decline of Lewis's film career and his simultaneous rise to fame as the emotional powerhouse of the Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, the author also traces Lewis's attempt to create a serious, adult image to replace that of the aging 'kid'"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11760376.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Frank Krutnik shows that Jerry Lewis has consistently acted as a transgressive figure in U.S. popular culture. Drawing on films, rare television shows, recordings, trade reviews, magazine articles, biographies, and documentaries, Krutnik reads Lewis's extreme physical comedy and multifaceted star persona as mediated responses to cultural anxieties about the body, identity, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class. He discusses Lewis's partnership with Dean Martin in the late 1940s and early 1950s, exploring how their performances elaborated on a wartime theme of male bonding.".
- catalog description "America's Sacred Monster: An Introduction -- Embarrassment to the Order: Jerry Lewis and the French -- Comic Bondage of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis -- Photochemistry: Martin and Lewis Onscreen -- One Man Alone: A Star Is Reborn -- Delicate/Delinquent: The Transitional Films -- Man With a Movie Camera: The Total Filmmaker -- Big Night in Hollywood: The Self-Directed Films -- Kid on the Run: The Wandering Years -- Coming Home: The Nutty National Treasure -- App. Lewisography.".
- catalog description "Examining such early '60s solo works as The Bellboy, The Nutty Professor, and The Patsy, Krutnik explores the ways in which Lewis both dismantled the conventions of film comedy and manipulated the codes of his public identity. Charting the decline of Lewis's film career and his simultaneous rise to fame as the emotional powerhouse of the Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, the author also traces Lewis's attempt to create a serious, adult image to replace that of the aging 'kid'"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-307) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 317 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Inventing Jerry Lewis.".
- catalog identifier "1560983698 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Inventing Jerry Lewis.".
- catalog isPartOf "[Smithsonian studies in the history of film and media]".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Inventing Jerry Lewis.".
- catalog subject "791.43/028/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Lewis, Jerry, 1926- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PN2287.L435 K78 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "America's Sacred Monster: An Introduction -- Embarrassment to the Order: Jerry Lewis and the French -- Comic Bondage of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis -- Photochemistry: Martin and Lewis Onscreen -- One Man Alone: A Star Is Reborn -- Delicate/Delinquent: The Transitional Films -- Man With a Movie Camera: The Total Filmmaker -- Big Night in Hollywood: The Self-Directed Films -- Kid on the Run: The Wandering Years -- Coming Home: The Nutty National Treasure -- App. Lewisography.".
- catalog title "Inventing Jerry Lewis / Frank Krutnik.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".