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The wire in the college classroom : pedagogical approaches in the humanities /
"This collection of new essays offers practical examples for implementing The Wire in the college classroom as a cultural text to engage students in critical and creative inquiry. The essays provide a disciplinary framework for using the series in media studies, writing and narrative, ethics an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
©2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction (Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey)
- Part I: Media
- It Was TV: Teaching HBO's The Wire as a Television Series (Todd M. Sodano)
- The Angriest Auteur on Television: Teaching Media Authorship Through David Simon (Alex M. Kupfer)
- Post-Network Era Television, Cultural Hierarchies and Sociological Uses of The Wire Beyond Urban Inequality (Michael L. Wayne)
- Part II: Writing and Narrative
- "Dope on the damn table": Narrative Discourse in The Wire and African American Literature (Paul D. Reich)
- "They're not learning for our world
- they're learning for theirs": Changing the First Year Writing Experience (Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey)
- Exercises in Revision and Form (Michael Ennis)
- Closure in the Classroom: "Final Grades" (C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter)
- Part III: Ethics and Rhetoric
- "The gods will not save you": Teaching Ethics with The Wire (James W. McCarty III)
- Good Lives in Tragic Worlds (Nathan P. Gilmour)
- Wallace's Choice (Tom Nurmi)
- Part IV: Education and Literacy
- Reading the Scene: Discourse, Literacy and Pedagogy Through The Wire (Daniel Listoe)
- The Wire at a Distance: The Socio-Cultural Determination of Meaning and the Challenges of Online Learning (Matt Applegate)
- Using The Wire to Teach Cultural Competency in Higher Education (Tia Sherèe Gaynor)
- About the Contributors
- Index.