Enfant Terrible!:
Jerry Lewis in American Film

edited by
Murray Pomerance

 

Contents

Murray POMERANCE: Introduction

Jerry and Me

Leslie A. FIEDLER: Whatever Happened to Jerry Lewis?: "That's Amore . . ."
Shawn LEVY: Being Rupert Pupkin

Jerry Lewis, Faces Off

Andrew HORTON: Jerry Lewis's Arizona Dream
Marcia LANDY: Jerry Agonistes: An Obscure Object of Critical Desire
Craig FISCHER: Flaming Creature: Jerry Lewis and Screen Performance
in Hollywood or Bust
Krin GABBARD: The Day the Clown Quit: Jerry Lewis Returns to The Jazz Singer's Roots

Jerry Lewis and Social Transformations

Frank KRUTNIK: Sex and Slapstick: The Martin and Lewis Phenomenon
Mikita BROTTMAN: The Imbecile Chic of Jerry Lewis
Lucy FISCHER: Sick Jokes: Humor and Health in the Work of Jerry Lewis
David DESSER: The Geisha Boy: Orientalizing the Jewish Man
J. P. TELOTTE: Jerry in the City: The Topology of The King of Comedy
Scott BUKATMAN: Terminal Idiocy (The comedian is the message)

Jerry-Built

Peter LEHMAN and Susan HUNT: "The Inner Man": Mind, Body, and Transformations of Masculinity in The Nutty Professor
Dana POLAN: Working Hard Hardly Working: Labor and Leisure
in the Films of Jerry Lewis
Barry Keith GRANT: Hello Deli!: Shtick Meets Teenpic in The Delicate Delinquent
Murray POMERANCE: The Errant Boy: Morty S. Tashman and the Powers of the Tongue

 

Works Cited and Consulted
Index