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WHO NEEDS ENEMIES?(Review) (movie review)
American Prospect, The, July, 2001 by LESSER, WENDY
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Imagine that you had never seen Alfred Hitchcock's movies and had only read the scripts. It would be possible under such circumstances--though just remotely, I'll grant--to miss the fact that these films are scary and suspenseful and to view them as merely witty and ironic. Still, it would be a huge oversight--comparable, say, to noticing that Jerry Lewis's films are cruel without noticing that they are supposed to be funny.
The French have, famously, made the latter error, assimilating Jerry Lewis into Artaud's "theater of cruelty" and thereby elevating him to ...
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