The wire and America's dark corners : critical essays / edited by Arin Keeble and Ivan Stacy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keeble, Arin, 1977- editor.

Stacy, Ivan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wire (Television program).

United States--On television.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 228 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

"In post-9/11 America, while all eyes were on Iraq and Afghanistan, The Wire focused on the dark realities of domestic life. This collection of essays examines The Wire in these terms, covering the unforseen consequences of the War on Drugs, the racial and economic division of America's cities, the surveillance state and the meaning of citizenship"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part One. Bad Dreams : American Identity Post-9/11

History, Freedom and Bureaucracy / Andrew Moore

Mythological Fictions and the Game Paradigm / Niall Heffernan

The American Dream : Capital, Codes and Consensus in the Early 21st Century / Michael Gow

"It's all in the game" : Citizenship as the "Missing Middle" / Michael Lister

Part Two. The Target : The War on Drugs and Its Cost

The Corners of Crime / Robert Andersson, Jorgen Bruhn and Anne Gjelsvik

The Paper Bag Compromise : Hiding the Problem of Drug Dependency in Hamsterdam / J.D. Taylor

Insurgency, Accidental Guerrillas and Gang Culture / Tiffany Potter and Tobias Sirzyk

The War on Drugs and the War on Terror / Arin Keeble

Part Three. The Detail : Domestic Policy in Bush-era America

Rethinking Space / Anca M. Pusca

Watching, Policing : Surveillance and Complicity / Ivan Stacy

A Dystopian Fable About America's Urban Poor / Peter Dreier and John Atlas

Post-9/11 Educational Reform and the Epistemology of Ignorance : A Critique of No Child Left Behind / Laura Bolf-Beliveau and Ralph Beliveau.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786479184

0786479183

OCLC:

890510397