Murray Pomerance & Matthew Solomon 
The Biggest Thing in Show Business [EPUB ebook] 
Living It Up with Martin & Lewis

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.

Tabela de Conteúdo

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

Sobre o autor

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.