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

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

from: Continuum List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.38 You Save: $8.57 (34%) as of 11/08/2009 09:52 EST Used Price: $5.59 Third Party New Price: $16.24 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4572 EAN: 9780826418036 ISBN: 0826418031 Label: Continuum Manufacturer: Continuum Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 282 Publication Date: 2006-02 Publisher: Continuum Studio: Continuum Related Items: Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing Seinology: The Sociology of Seinfeld Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Book How Well Do You Know Jerry. . . and His Friends?: A Trivia Book Seinlanguage see more Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product 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. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Culture shock good read This product is a "reader" type, a book for those who like to read about each program that came from Seinfeld. This book comprises reviews by print medium people and the like. Well written, but heavy on cultural meanings and jazzy thoughts versus how the show was put together and what the back story was. There is not much about the personal lives of the actors as they did their magic. This is definitely not a book that tells much about the day to day operation that gave birth to this astoundingly good series. Rating: - About Time Someone Did This! Well written with in text refrencing to specific episodes that isn't too invasive. Contains a variety of well written academic essays. Rating: - good compilation of journal articles/essays about seinfeld I found this during the tailend of my research for a paper on seinfeld and pop culture, and i wish i had found it first. it brought together many of the articles and book chapters i had found before (although some were reedited for maximum seinfeld discussion)and a bunch that i couldn't find through my university library. it's a great read for anyone interested in the cultural aspects of the show. book also includes a "complete" glossary of seinfeld terms, a complete listing of the episodes with synopses, and many interesting chapters. i liked this study much better than "seinfeld and philosophy," which i thought less captivating. and because many of these articles come from published works (books, scholarly journals) they have been well written and edited. all in all it was the perfect buy for my research.