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

Name: Seinfeld, Master of Its Domain Revisiting Television's Greatest Sitcom
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ISBN: 9780826418036

ISBN-10: 0826418031

ISBN-13: 9780826418036

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Lavery, Sara Lewis Dunne, Lavery

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 1/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface: "Part of Popular Culture": The Legacy of Seinfeld




"Giddy-up!": Introductions


Much Ado About Nothing: Some Final Thoughts on Seinfeld



Seinfeld: A Show (Almost) About Nothing



Seinfeld



Reflections on Seinfeld



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


Seinfeld as Intertextual Comedy



They Laughed Unhappily Ever After: Seinfeld and the Sitcom Encounter with Nothingness



Jane Austen, Meet Jerry Seinfeld



Genre Expectation and Narrative Innovation in Seinfeld




"If I like their race, how can that be racist?": Gender, Generations, and Ethnicity


Male Anxiety and the Buddy System on Seinfeld



"Do you think they're having babies just so people will visit them?": Parents and Children on Seinfeld



Seinfeld is a Jewish Sitcom, Isn't It? Ethnicity and Assimilation in 1990s American Television




"It is so sad. All your knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons": Cultural, Pop Cultural, and Media Matters


The Republic of Seinfeld



Seinfood: Purity, Danger, and Food Codes on Seinfeld



"It'll always be Burma to me": J. Peterman on Seinfeld



Getting the Joke, Even If It Is About Nothing: Seinfeld from a European Perspective



From Must-See-TV to Branded Counterprogramming: Seinfeld and Syndication




Afterword


Rereading Seinfeld after Curb Your Enthusiasm




"Get out!": Back Pages


Glossary of Seinfeldian Terms



Seinfeld Episode and Situation Guide


Seinfeld Intertexts and Allusions


Contributors


Bibliography


Index