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

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

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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Subject Wire (Television program)
Wire (Television program)
Wire (Television program)
Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Humanities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dillon, Karen, 1980-
Crummey, Naomi, 1973-
Other Form: Print version: Wire in the college classroom : pedagogical approaches in the humanities. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, ©2015 viii, 238 pages 9780786495283
ISBN 133618325X (electronic book)
9781336183254 (electronic book)
9781476619675 (electronic book)
1476619670 (electronic book)
9780786495283