The Wire : urban decay and American television / edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Potter, Tiffany, 1967-

Marshall, C. W., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wire (Television program).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Wire is about survival, about the strategies adopted by those living and working in the inner cities of America. It presents a world where for many even hope isn't an option, where life operates as day-to-day existence without education, without job security, and without social structures. This is a world that is only grey, an exacting autopsy of a side of American life that has never seen the inside of a Starbucks. Over its five season, sixty-episode run (2002-2008), The Wire presents several overlapping narrative threads, all set in the city of Baltimore. The series consistently deconstr

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; "I am the American Dream": Modern Urban Tragedy and the Borders of Fiction; Baltimore before The Wire; I. Baltimore and Its Institutions; II. On the Corner; III. Twenty-first-Century Television; Works Cited; Episode List; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-87642-2

9786612876424

1-4411-8268-3

OCLC:

676698395