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

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ISBN: 9780826418036 | 0826418031
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Copyright: 1/20/2006

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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

Preface

(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

(10)

David Marc (Syracuse University), Seinfeld: A Show (Almost) About Nothing

(5)

Bill Wyman, Seinfeld

(8)

Reflections on Seinfeld

(13)

II. "Maybe the dingoes ate your baby": Genre, Humor, Intertextuality

Michael Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Seinfeld as Intertextual Comedy

(9)

Barbara Ching (University of Memphis), They Laughed Unhappily Ever After: Seinfeld and the Sitcom Encounter with Nothingness

(12)

Dennis Hall (University of Louisville), Jane Austen, Meet Jerry Seinfeld

(7)

Amy McWilliams (Texas A&M University), Genre Expectation and Narrative Innovation in Seinfeld

(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

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

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