Author Scott Bukatman

Scott Bukatman

Scott Bukatman is a cultural theorist and Professo of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University. His research explores how such popular media as film, comics and animation mediate between new technologies and human perceptual and bodily experience.

The Nutty Professor

The Nutty Professor (1963)

July 2016

Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director

Paralysis in Motion: The Nutty Professor (1963) The Nutty Professor is entirely devoted to Professor Julius Kelp’s attempts to surmount his deficiencies as a man. Unable to contend with his own desires, the in...