The Wire : urban decay and American television /

The Wire is about survival, about the strategies adopted by those living and working in the inner cities of America. It presents a world where for many even hope isn't an option, where life operates as day-to-day existence without education, without job security, and without social structures....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Potter, Tiffany, 1967-, Marshall, C. W., 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Continuum, 2009.
Temas:
Wire (Television program)
Wire (Fernsehsendung)
Inner cities > On television > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > History & Criticism.
Mass media
Baltimore (Md.) > In mass media > History and criticism.
Maryland > Baltimore
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "I am the American Dream": Modern Urban Tragedy and the Borders of Fiction / C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter
  • Baltimore before The Wire / Afaa M. Weaver
  • I. Baltimore and Its Institutions
  • 1. Yesterday's Tomorrow Today: Baltimore and the Promise of Reform / David M. Alff
  • 2. "We ain't got no yard": Crime, Development, and Urban Environment / Peter Clandfield
  • 3. Heroism, Institutions, and the Police Procedural / Alastair McMillan
  • 4. "The Narrative Production or "Real Police" / Ryan Brooks
  • 5. "I Got the Shotgun, You Got the Briefcase": Lawyering and Ethics / Lynne Viti
  • 6. Posing Problems and Picking Fights: Critical Pedagogy and the Corner Boys / Ralph Beliveau and Laura Bolf-Beliveau
  • II. On the Corner
  • 7. Corner-Boy Masculinity: Intersections of Inner-City Manhood / James Braxton Peterson
  • 8. Stringer Bell's Lament: Violence and Legitimacy in Contemporary Capitalism / Jason Read
  • 9. Networks of Affiliation: Familialism and Anticorporatism in Black and White / Stephen Lucasi
  • 10. Barksdale Women: Crime, Empire, and the Production of Gender / Courtney D. Marshall
  • 11. After the Towers Fell: Bodie Broadus and the Space of Memory / Elizabeth Bonjean
  • III. Twenty-first-Century Television
  • 12. "The Dickensian Aspect": Melodrama, Viewer Engagement, and the Socially Conscious Text / Amanda Ann Klein
  • 13. It's All Connected: Televisual Narrative Complexity / Ted Nanniceili
  • 14. Dislocating America: Agnieszka Holland Directs "Moral Midgetry" / Kevin McNeilly
  • 15. "Gots to Get Got": Social Justice and Audience Response to Omar Little / Kathleen Lebesco
  • Episode List.

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