Table of Contents

CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAN AMERICAN DREAMA Structural CinemaThe Performance of IdentitySaying No to NoOedipus Is No ProblemHow to Undo Things with WordsLewisian SpaceThe Frame and Its ObstructionsLewisian TimeSoundThe Total FilmmakerAN INTERVIEW WITH JERRY LEWISFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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About the Author

Chris Fujiwara is the author of The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger and Jacques Tourneur: The Cinema of Nightfall. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.

Reviews

"Absolutely brilliant. Fujiwara powerfully gives body and coherence to Lewis's work with identity, image, sound, space, and time, and the interview with Lewis is pure gold: the finest and most probing interview with the director I have ever read in any language." Adrian Martin, coeditor of Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia "...Fujiwara notes that, rather than improving his reputation in the United States, the effect of Lewis' growing standing and popularity in France was to make him a figure of mockery, the subject of "countless lazy and patronising jokes [...] gibes whose ideological nature has become unmistakeable and more obnoxious than ever in a period of U.S. history that has witnessed the rebranding of Freedom Fries"... Identity is the subject of the largest section, revealing a complicating factor in how Fujiwara has approached Lewis' films. He demonstrates that they are often intensely personal in their protagonists' quests for a sense of belonging and purpose. In raising the question of the separation of textual meaning from biographical meaning, he underlines the importance of the concise treatment of biographical details in the introduction." - Adam Jones, Scope, Issue 24, October 2012