![]() ![]() The goal is to rewatch the entire series chronologically to see what truly worked, what still holds up today, what feels just a bit dated and yada, yada, yada it will be a great time. David Lavery and Sara Lewis Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Preface.Welcome to Seinfeld: The PTBN Series Rewatch! On a regular basis, Justin Rozzero, Aaron George, Andrew Flanagan and Jordan Duncan will watch an episode of TV’s greatest sitcom and provide notes and grades across a number of categories. ![]() "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. Reeves (Texas Tech University), From Must-See-TV to Branded Counter Programming: Seinfeld and Syndication Section 5. "Get Out!": Back Pages Betty Lee, Seinfeld Lexicon Seinfeld Episode and Situation Guide (by David Lavery) Seinfeld Intertexts and Allusions Contributors Bibliography Index Afterword David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University, with Marc Leverette, Colorado State University, Re-Reading Seinfeld after Curb Your Enthusiasm Section 6. ![]() Readers familiar with academic cultural studies aren't likely to tingle with anticipation when our eyes fall on a scholarly article from the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research at Monash University in Melbourne. We expect to be rewarded, at best, with the warm feeling of virtue that follows the performance of a duty requiring heavy lifting.But it turns out that Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer, whose program ceased production in 1998 but still circles the planet in endless reruns, provide as much fun for academics as for the rest of us.ĭi Mattia's essay, Male Anxiety and the Buddy System in Seinfeld, does nothing to lighten our mood. ![]()
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