Connecting the Wire - Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore

The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• One. Season 1: Drugs, Race, and the Structures of Social Immobility
• Two. Season 2: The Wire, the Waterfront, and the Ravages of Neoliberalism
• Three. Season 3: Drugs, Space, and Redevelopment
• Four. Season 4: A Neoliberal Education: Space, Knowledge, and Schooling
• Five. Season 5: The Demise of the Public Sphere—News, Lies, and Policing
• Conclusion: The Wire and the New Dawn (Maybe)
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

By Stanley Corkin

Zusammenfassung

The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stanley Corkin
• Verlag: University Of Texas Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781477311776
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1177-6
• Seiten: 260
• Serien: Texas Film and Media Studies Series; Texas Film and Media Studies
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett