Jerry Lewis

by Chris Fujiwara

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076796
• ISBN13: 9780252076794
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher