Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain
Revisiting Television's Greatest Sitcom
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2010
290 pages
978-1-4411-0090-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 (first published in the New York Review of Books and Salon.com respectively), and a selection of new and revised essays by some of the top television scholars in the US - looking at issues as wide-ranging as Seinfeld's Jewishness, alleged nihilism, food obsession, and long-running syndication. The book also includes a comprehensive episode guide, and Betty Lee's lexicon of Seinfeld language.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-0090-0 (9781441100900)
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Content
David Lavery and Sara Lewis Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Preface. "Part of Popular Culture": The Legacy of Seinfeld
Section 1. "Giddy-Up!": Introductions
Albert Auster (Fordham University), Much Ado About Nothing: Some Final Thoughts on Seinfeld
David Marc (Syracuse University), Seinfeld: A Show (Almost) About Nothing
Bill Wyman, Seinfeld
Reflections on Seinfeld
Section 2. "Maybe the dingoes ate your baby": Genre, Humor, Intertextuality
Michael Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Seinfeld as Intertextual Comedy
Barbara Ching (University of Memphis), They Laughed Unhappily Ever After: Seinfeld, Situation Comedy, and the Encounter with Nothingness
Dennis Hall (University of Louisville), Jane Austen, Meet Jerry Seinfeld
Amy McWilliams (Texas A & M), Genre Expectation and Narrative Innovation in Seinfeld
Section 3. "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 in Seinfeld
Matthew Bond, "Are they having babies just so people will visit them?": Parents and Children on Seinfeld
Jon Stratton (Curtin University of Technology), Seinfeld is a Jewish Sitcom, Isn't It: Ethnicity and Assimilation on 1990s American Television
Section 4. "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
Sara Lewis Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Seinfood: Purity, Danger, and Food Codes on Seinfeld
Eleanor Hersey (Fresno Pacific University), "It'll Always Be Burma to Me": J. Peterman on Seinfeld
Elke van Cassel (Radboud University Nijmegen), Getting the Joke: Seinfeld from a European Perspective
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 Counter Programming: Seinfeld and Syndication
Section 5. Afterword
David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University, with Marc Leverette, Colorado State University, Re-Reading Seinfeld after Curb Your Enthusiasm
Section 6. "Get Out!": Back Pages
Betty Lee, Seinfeld Lexicon
Seinfeld Episode and Situation Guide (by David Lavery)
Seinfeld Intertexts and Allusions
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Section 1. "Giddy-Up!": Introductions
Albert Auster (Fordham University), Much Ado About Nothing: Some Final Thoughts on Seinfeld
David Marc (Syracuse University), Seinfeld: A Show (Almost) About Nothing
Bill Wyman, Seinfeld
Reflections on Seinfeld
Section 2. "Maybe the dingoes ate your baby": Genre, Humor, Intertextuality
Michael Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Seinfeld as Intertextual Comedy
Barbara Ching (University of Memphis), They Laughed Unhappily Ever After: Seinfeld, Situation Comedy, and the Encounter with Nothingness
Dennis Hall (University of Louisville), Jane Austen, Meet Jerry Seinfeld
Amy McWilliams (Texas A & M), Genre Expectation and Narrative Innovation in Seinfeld
Section 3. "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 in Seinfeld
Matthew Bond, "Are they having babies just so people will visit them?": Parents and Children on Seinfeld
Jon Stratton (Curtin University of Technology), Seinfeld is a Jewish Sitcom, Isn't It: Ethnicity and Assimilation on 1990s American Television
Section 4. "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
Sara Lewis Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Seinfood: Purity, Danger, and Food Codes on Seinfeld
Eleanor Hersey (Fresno Pacific University), "It'll Always Be Burma to Me": J. Peterman on Seinfeld
Elke van Cassel (Radboud University Nijmegen), Getting the Joke: Seinfeld from a European Perspective
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 Counter Programming: Seinfeld and Syndication
Section 5. Afterword
David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University, with Marc Leverette, Colorado State University, Re-Reading Seinfeld after Curb Your Enthusiasm
Section 6. "Get Out!": Back Pages
Betty Lee, Seinfeld Lexicon
Seinfeld Episode and Situation Guide (by David Lavery)
Seinfeld Intertexts and Allusions
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
