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The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & Lewis

The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & Lewis - Hardcover

by Murray Pomerance, Matthew Solomon
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Availability:In StockContributor:Murray Pomerance, Matthew SolomonPublish date:2024-02-01Pages:342
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438496528ISBN-10:1438496524UPC:9781438496528Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Film, TelevisionBook Topic:History & Criticism, GenresSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.3823Product ID:SCB5YFQ44P
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:State University of New York PressISBN-13:9781438496528ISBN-10:1438496524UPC:9781438496528Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Film, TelevisionBook Topic:History & Criticism, GenresSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.3823Product ID:SCB5YFQ44P
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 M?li?s Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris.
Publisher: State University of New York Press

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