Connecting The Wire : race, space, and postindustrial Baltimore /

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<P>Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series <em>The Wire</em> (2002?2008) is a landmark event in television history, offering a raw and dramatically compelling vision of the teeming drug trade and the vitality of life in the abandoned s...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Corkin, Stanley (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Texas film and media studies series.
Subjects:
Wire (Television program)
Television programs > United States > History and criticism.
Race relations on television.
Social classes on television.
Television programs > Social aspects.
Émissions télévisées > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Relations raciales à la télévision.
Classes sociales à la télévision.
Émissions télévisées > Aspect social.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism
Race relations on television
Social classes on television
Television programs
Television programs > Social aspects
Baltimore (Md.) > Drama.
Maryland > Baltimore
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Drama
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Season 1 : drugs, race, and the structures of social immobility
  • Season 2 : the wire, the waterfront, and the ravages of neoliberalism
  • Season 3 : drugs, space, and redevelopment
  • Season 4 : a neoliberal education: space, knowledge, and schooling
  • Season 5 : the demise of the public sphere
  • news, lies, and policing
  • Conclusion : the Wire and the new dawn (maybe).

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