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

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