Why the French Love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early Cinema

by RaeBethGordon (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $29.54

  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.