The wire in the college classroom : pedagogical approaches in the humanities / edited by Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dillon, Karen, 1980- author.

Crummey, Naomi, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wire (Television program).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Wire's provocative subject matter, layered narrative and explicit critiques of American socio-economic institutions make it one of the most teachable television series in recent years. This collection of new essays offers practical examples for implementing The Wire in the college classroom as a cultural text to engage students in critical and creative inquiry. The essays provide a disciplinary framework for using the series in media studies, writing and narrative, ethics and rhetoric, and education and literacy. Each essay details the pedagogical goals of teaching the series or specific e

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Introduction (Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey); Part I: Media; It Was TV: Teaching HBO's The Wire as a Television Series (Todd M. Sodano); The Angriest Auteur on Television: Teaching Media Authorship Through David Simon (Alex M. Kupfer); Post-Network Era Television, Cultural Hierarchies and Sociological Uses of The Wire Beyond Urban Inequality (Michael L. Wayne); Part II: Writing and Narrative; "Dope on the damn table": Narrative Discourse in The Wire and African American Literature (Paul D. Reich); "They're not learning for our world

they're learning for theirs": Changing the First Year Writing Experience (Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey)Exercises in Revision and Form (Michael Ennis); Closure in the Classroom: "Final Grades" (C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter); Part III: Ethics and Rhetoric; "The gods will not save you": Teaching Ethics with The Wire (James W. McCarty III); Good Lives in Tragic Worlds (Nathan P. Gilmour); Wallace's Choice (Tom Nurmi); Part IV: Education and Literacy; Reading the Scene: Discourse, Literacy and Pedagogy Through The Wire (Daniel Listoe)

The Wire at a Distance: The Socio-Cultural Determination of Meaning and the Challenges of Online Learning (Matt Applegate)Using The Wire to Teach Cultural Competency in Higher Education (Tia Sherèe Gaynor); About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1967-0