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On the Wire / Linda Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Linda, 1946-
- Series:
- Spin Offs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wire (Television program).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (276 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>In this sophisticated examination of the HBO serial drama that aired from 2002 until 2008, Linda Williams, a leading film scholar and authority on the interplay between film, melodrama, and issues of race, suggests what exactly it is that makes <I>The Wire</I> so good. She argues that its narrative power derives from its genre, popular melodrama.<BR></div>
- Contents:
- World enough and time: the genesis and genius of the Wire
- Justice in the Wire: tragedy, realism, and melodrama
- Surveillance, schoolin' and race
- Conclusion: home sweet Baltimore.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357179
- 0822357178
- 9780822376446
- 082237644X
- OCLC:
- 1139360003
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