Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain : Revisiting Television's Greatest Sitcom,9780826418029

Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain : Revisiting Television's Greatest Sitcom

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ISBN13: 9780826418029
ISBN10: 0826418023
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-02-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury USA Academic
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Summary

After a slow and inauspicious beginning, Seinfeld broke through to become one of the most commercially successful sitcoms in the history of television. This fascinating book includes classic articles on the show by Geoffrey O'Brien and Bill Wyman

Table of Contents

Preface 1(12)
David Lavery and Sara Lewis Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), "Part of Popular Culture": The Legacy of Seinfeld
I. "Giddy-up!": Introductions
Albert Auster (Fordham University), Much Ado About Nothing: Some Final Thoughts on Seinfeld
13(10)
David Marc (Syracuse University), Seinfeld: A Show (Almost) About Nothing
23(5)
Bill Wyman, Seinfeld
28(8)
Reflections on Seinfeld
36(13)
II. "Maybe the dingoes ate your baby": Genre, Humor, Intertextuality
Michael Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Seinfeld as Intertextual Comedy
49(9)
Barbara Ching (University of Memphis), They Laughed Unhappily Ever After: Seinfeld and the Sitcom Encounter with Nothingness
58(12)
Dennis Hall (University of Louisville), Jane Austen, Meet Jerry Seinfeld
70(7)
Amy McWilliams (Texas A&M University), Genre Expectation and Narrative Innovation in Seinfeld
77(12)
III. "If I like their race, how can that be racist?": Gender, Generations, and Ethnicity
Joanna L. Di Mattia (Monash University), Male Anxiety and the Buddy System on Seinfeld
89(19)
Matthew Bond, "Do you think they're having babies just so people will visit them?": Parents and Children on Seinfeld
108(9)
Jon Stratton (Curtin University of Technology), Seinfeld is a Jewish Sitcom, Isn't It? Ethnicity and Assimilation in 1990's American Television
117(22)
IV. "It is so sad. All your knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons": Cultural, Pop Cultural, and Media Matters
Geoffrey O'Brien, The Republic of Seinfeld
139(9)
Sara Lewis Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Seinfood: Purity, Danger, and Food Codes on Seinfeld
148(11)
Eleanor Hersey (Fresno Pacific University), "It'll always be Burma to me": J. Peterman on Seinfeld
159(10)
Elke van Cassel (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Getting the Joke, Even If It Is About Nothing: Seinfeld from a European Perspective
169(17)
Michael M. Epstein (Southwestern University School of Law), Mark C. Rogers (Walsh University), and Jimmie L. Reeves (Texas Tech University), From Must-See-TV to Branded Counterprogramming: Seinfeld and Syndication
186(17)
V. Afterword
David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University) with Marc Leverette (Colorado State University), Rereading Seinfeld after Curb Your Enthusiasm
203(20)
VI. "Get out!": Back Pages
Betty Lee, Glossary of Seinfeldian Terms
223(8)
Seinfeld Episode and Situation Guide
231(24)
Seinfeld Intertexts and Allusions
255(2)
Contributors 257(2)
Bibliography 259(10)
Index 269

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