Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-264) and index.
Contents:
Errant boy : Morty S. Tashman and the powers of the tongue / Murray Pomerance. Being Rupert Pupkin / Shawn Levy -- Dreaming of Jerry Lewis's Arizona dream / Andrew Horton -- Jerry Agonistes : an obscure object of critical desire / Marcia Landy -- Flaming creature : Jerry Lewis and screen performance in Hollywood or Bust / Craig Fischer -- Day the clown quit : Jerry Lewis returns to The Jazz Singer's roots / Krin Gabbard -- Sex and slapstick : the Martin and Lewis phenomenom / Frank Krutnik -- Imbecile chic of Jerry Lewis / Mikita Brottman -- Sick jokes : humor and health in the work of Jerry Lewis / Lucy Fischer -- Geisha Boy : orientalizing the Jewish man / David Desser -- Jerry in the city : the topology of The King of Comedy / J. P. Telotte -- Terminal idiocy (the comedian is the message) / Scott Bukatman -- "Inner man" : mind, body, and transformations of masculinity in The Nutty Professor / Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt -- Working hard hardly working : labor and leisure in the films of Jerry Lewis / Dana Polan -- Hello deli! : shtick meets teenpic in The Delicate Delinquent / Barry Keith Grant -- Errant boy : Morty S. Tashman and the powers of the tongue / Murray Pomerance.
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