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Book SynopsisThe premier study of an incomparable American director
Trade Review“The most eloquent advocacy [Jerry Lewis has] received on his own shores for decades.”--NBC New York
"Fujiwara's insights should provoke readers to reassess Lewis' considerable body of work."--
Booklist"Providing a quick, clear, thoroughly analysis of an artist often ridiculed and little understood, Fujiwara establishes Lewis's themes and invention. . . . Recommended."--Choice
"Excellent."--
New York Times"The first extended critical treatment of Lewis in English that Lewis deserves—including a thoughtful, sympathetic, and lucid (yet in no way sycophantic) thirty-two page interview that is conceivably the best one anyone has ever had with him."--
Cineaste"Essential reading."--
The New Yorker online
"An incomparable work about one of the 20th century's most misunderstood clowns."--
The List"Absolutely brilliant. Fujiwara powerfully gives body and coherence to Lewis's work with identity, image, sound, space, and time, and the interview with Lewis is pure gold: the finest and most probing interview with the director I have ever read in any language."--Adrian Martin, coeditor of
Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World CinephiliaTable of ContentsAn American Dream; A Structural Cinema; The Performance of Identity; Saying No to No; Oedipus Is No Problem; How to Undo Things with Words; Lewisian Space; The Frame and Its Obstructions; Lewisian Time; Sound; The Total Filmmaker; An Interview with Jerry Lewis; Filmography; Bibliography; Index
