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[Jennifer Keishin Armstrong] ↠ Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything Û Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything "The finale of the book was worse than the finale of the show" according to BG. The chapters that dealt with the stars (before, during and after the show), the episodes, their dealings with the network were all fantastic. Great behind the scenes stuff that I hadn't heard or read about before. If only the entire book focused on those areas. There were several chapters on all of the writers and writing process. Those started out interesting enough, but quickly got repetitive and less compelling. T
| Title | : | Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (686 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476756104 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
. She grew up in Homer Glen, Illinois, and now lives in New York City. She writes about pop culture for several publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Fast Company, New York‘s Vulture, BBC Culture, Entertainment Weekly, and others. Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is the author of Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted, a history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Visit her online at JenniferKArmstrong
"The finale of the book was worse than the finale of the show" according to BG. The chapters that dealt with the stars (before, during and after the show), the episodes, their dealings with the network were all fantastic. Great behind the scenes stuff that I hadn't heard or read about before. If only the entire book focused on those areas. There were several chapters on all of the writers and writing process. Those started out interesting enough, but quickly got repetitive and less compelling. Then the last few chapters totally lost me. Stories about websites, blogs and twitter accounts. Beyond boring. There were so many under or un-explored topics that would have made for a stronger finish. I wou. M. JEFFREY MCMAHON said Capturing the Shadowy World Between Fiction and Nonfiction. I'm a huge fan of Seinfeld, so it's hard to be objective here. I was a true watcher, someone who started with the first episode, not a Jonny Come Lately who started watching during the third or fourth seasons, so with full disclosure let me say I loved this book. Armstrong writes a compelling narrative, complete with cultural analysis and juicy gossip, about the makings of the cultural juggernaut Seinfeld, and her thesis is that the show was so powerful it shaped the Zeitgeist and still influences culture today.She defines "Seinfeldia" as this absurd shadow world, existing not totally in fiction or totally in "real lif. An average read - not that there is anything wrong with that J. LECAPPELAIN After reading an excerpt of this book, I was excited to get it. I am a pretty, pretty, pretty big fan of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. I have seen every episode of each multiple times and hoped that this book would really show me how their world came to be. It does that, to a certain degree, but focuses more on the writers than the cast. That makes sense to a degree, as a writer might focus more on what the writers experienced, but I was much more interested in the show as a whole (specifically the cast) and its backstory.A lot of what the book covers is pretty well known. The book often repeats itself, such as of
Club, Grade: A- "The heart of Armstrong’s book and its most engaging quality is how it all came to be: the Seinfeld rules of the road that seemed to be without rules; the actors who left their indelible mark (Bryan Cranston as dentist Tim Whatley, Teri Hatcher as one of Jerry’s “spectacular” girlfriends) and the parade of moments about nothing that really turned out to be something."—USA Today “Armstrong's intimate, breezy history is full of gossipy details, show trivia, and insights into how famous episodes came to be. Through Armstrong's pen, we learn exactly how a couple of neurotic comics hijacked "nothingness" (once the exclusive domain of Buddhist monks and their serene, mountaintop "monk-spas") and transported it into every TV set in America.”—Mary Birdsong, Reno 911. Armstrong’s pacing and attention to detail makes it a book about pop culture that goes by
But against all odds, viewers began to watch, first a few and then many, until nine years later nearly forty million Americans were tuning in weekly.In Seinfeldia, acclaimed TV historian and entertainment writer Jennifer Keishin Armstrong celebrates the creators and fans of this American television phenomenon, bringing readers behind-the-scenes of the show while it was on the air and into the world of devotees for whom it never stopped being relevant, a world where the Soup Nazi still spends his days saying “No soup for you!”, Joe Davola gets questioned every day about his sanity, Kenny Kramer makes his living giving tours of New York sights from the show, and fans dress up in Jerry’s famous puffy shirt, dance like Elaine, and imagine plotlines for Seinfeld if it were still on TV.. NBC executives didn’t think anyone would watch either, but they bought it anyway, hiding it away in the TV dead zone of summer. “Her book, as if she were a marine biologist, is a deep divePerhaps the highest praise I can give Seinfeldia is that it made me want to buy a loaf of marbled rye and start watching again, from the beginning.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book ReviewThe hilarious behind-the-scenes story of two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up Seinfeld—the cultural sensation that changed television and bled into the real world, altering the lives of everyone it touched.Comedians Lar
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