Why the French Love Jerry Lewis

Why the French Love Jerry Lewis PDF Author: Rae Beth Gordon
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738941
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
Vividly bringing to light the tradition of physical comedy in the French cabaret, cafe-concert, and early French film comedy, this book answers the perplexing question, "Why do the French love Jerry Lewis?" It shows how Lewis touches a nerve in the French cultural memory because, more than any other film comic, he incarnates a distinctively French tradition of performance style."