Wire - Race, Class, and Genre

Informationen zum Autor Liam Kennedy is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. Klappentext Few other television series have received as much academic! media! and fan celebration as The Wire! which has been called the best dramatic series ever created. The essays in this volume offer a range of astute critical responses to this television phenomenon. The Wire reminds us of just how remarkably restricted the grammar of race is on American TV and related media! and of the normative codings of race across urban narratives! from documentary to entertainment media. Zusammenfassung Wide-ranging perspectives on "the best dramatic series ever created"

Product details

• Authors: Liam (EDT)/ Shapiro Kennedy, Liam Shapiro Kennedy
• Assisted by: Liam Kennedy (Editor), Stephen Shapiro (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2012
• EAN: 9780472071784
• ISBN: 978-0-472-07178-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Class: Culture (Hardcover); Class : Culture; Class : Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV