The Biggest Thing in Show Business

Living It Up with Martin & Lewis

Murray Pomerance, Matthew Solomon (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

342 Seiten

2024
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-9653-5 (ISBN)

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A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.

From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis provoked audiences into rollicking laughter as they shook up and delighted a culture they both mediated and made fun of. Using the duo's phenomenal popularity as a starting point, The Biggest Thing in Show Business looks askance at postwar America with a fast-moving sweep, jam-packed with unexpected connections, revealing details, and surprising insights. Aiming to be as unconventional as their subjects, Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon enact a highly spontaneous and up-to-the-minute approach to coauthorship that re-establishes the importance of Martin & Lewis in the cultural pantheon. As a result, the book's structure, methodology, and writing style are thoroughly dialogic and firmly opposed to stale convention.

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at the RMIT University, Melbourne. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, A Silence from Hitchcock (also published by SUNY Press) and Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience. Matthew Solomon is Professor of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. His most recent book is Méliès Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris.

An American Utopia

User's Manual

Can You Relax?

Can You Listen?

Part I

In the Playroom

Smash and Crash

Song of the South

Mouth to Mouth

Keep Good Records

Up the Ante

An Ampersanded Truth

An Interlude

Part II

Give Me a Head of Hair

The Tip of the Nose

I Stand Up, I Fall Down

"I Like Blood!"

Eyes Tightly Shut

Another Interlude

Part III

The True Voice of Feeling

When the Moon Hits Your Eye

This Is Cardboard

Hustlers

In Stereo

With the Doctor

Dean and Jerry Full Frontal

Splitsville on Schedule

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Coda

In the Library

Can You Look Up?

List of Illustrations

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2024
Zusatzinfo	Total Illustrations: 44
Verlagsort	Albany, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4384-9653-2 / 1438496532
ISBN-13	978-1-4384-9653-5 / 9781438496535
Zustand	Neuware