Table of Contents
David Lavery and Sara Lewis Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University), Preface. "Part of Popular Culture": The Legacy of Seinfeld [1]
“Giddy-Up!”: Introductory
Albert Auster (Fordham University): Much Ado About Nothing: Some Final Thoughts on Seinfeld [13]
David Marc (Syracuse University): Seinfeld: A Show (Almost) About Nothing [23]
Reflections on Seinfeld [28]
Bill Wyman: Seinfeld [36]
II. “Maybe the dingoes ate your baby”: Genre, Humor, Intertextuality
Michael Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University): Seinfeld as Intertextual Comedy [49]
Barbara Ching (University of Memphis): They Laughed Unhappily Ever After: Seinfeld, Situation Comedy, and the Encounter with Nothingness [58]
Dennis Hall (University of Louisville): Jane Austen, Meet Jerry Seinfeld [70]
Amy McWilliams (Texas A & M): Genre Expectation and Narrative Innovation in Seinfeld [77]
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 in Seinfeld [89]
Matthew Bond: “Are they having babies just so people will visit them?”: Parents and Children on Seinfeld [108]
Jon Stratton (Curtin University of Technology): Seinfeld is a Jewish Sitcom, Isn’t It: Ethnicity and Assimilation on 1990s American Television [117]
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]
Sara Lewis Dunne (Middle Tennessee State University): Seinfood: Purity, Danger, and Food Codes on Seinfeld [148]
Eleanor Hersey (Fresno Pacific University): "It’ll Always Be Burma to Me": J. Peterman on Seinfeld [159]
Elke van Cassel (Radboud University Nijmegen): Getting the Joke: Seinfeld from a European Perspective [169]
Michael Epstein (Southwestern University College of Law), Mark C. Rogers (Walsh University), and Jimmie L. Reeves (Texas Tech University): From Must See TV to Counter Programming: Seinfeld and Syndication [186]
V. Afterword
David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University) and Marc Leverette (Colorado State University): Re-Reading Seinfeld after Curb Your Enthusiasm [203]
VI. “Get Out!”: Back Pages
Betty Lee: Seinfeld Lexicon [223]
Seinfeld Episode (and Situation) Guide (by David Lavery) [231]
Seinfeld Intertexts and Allusions [255]
Contributors [257]
Bibliography [259]