{"id":1161,"date":"2013-09-11T18:34:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T22:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2013-09-11T20:05:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T00:05:06","slug":"new-ebook-two-essays-on-jerry-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"New Ebook — TWO ESSAYS ON JERRY LEWIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve decided to release a free ebook (a pamphlet, really): TWO ESSAYS ON JERRY LEWIS. The book contains, unsurprisingly, two essays I have recently written on Jerry Lewis. The first essay is about his final self-directed feature film, Smorgasbord<\/em> (retitled Cracking Up<\/em> by the distributor). It appeared in the online film journal La furia umana<\/em><\/a>, but it is currently unavailable due to website restructuring. The second essay, “The Jerry Lewis Assemblage,” takes off from a scene in Lewis’ film The Patsy<\/em> in order to give a more general discussion of the mechanisms of his comedy (and how Lewis provides us with a synthesis of Henri Bergson and Karl Marx). This essay will be appearing in a book on Lewis edited by Toni D’Angela (the editor in chief of La furia umana<\/em>). I am putting the two essays together here, in the hope that they will be read more widely. Consider it as part of my ongoing effort to help Jerry Lewis<\/a> — a comedian and filmmaker more recognized in Europe than at home in America — fully gain the recognition he deserves as one of the great artists of world cinema.<\/p>\n

The ebook is available for free download:<\/p>\n