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

Publication Info. New York : Continuum, 2009.

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 Moore Stacks  PN1992.77.W53 W57 2009    Available  ---
Description vii, 254 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index.
Contents "I am the American Dream": Modern Urban Tragedy and the Borders of Fiction / C. W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter -- Baltimore before The Wire / Afaa M. Weaver -- I. Baltimore and Its Institutions -- 1. Yesterday's Tomorrow Today: Baltimore and the Promise of Reform / David M. Alff -- 2. "We ain't got no yard": Crime, Development, and Urban Environment / Peter Clandfield -- 3. Heroism, Institutions, and the Police Procedural / Alastair McMillan -- 4. "The Narrative Production or "Real Police" / Ryan Brooks -- 5. "I Got the Shotgun, You Got the Briefcase": Lawyering and Ethics / Lynne Viti -- 6. Posing Problems and Picking Fights: Critical Pedagogy and the Corner Boys / Ralph Beliveau and Laura Bolf-Beliveau -- II. On the Corner -- 7. Corner-Boy Masculinity: Intersections of Inner-City Manhood / James Braxton Peterson -- 8. Stringer Bell's Lament: Violence and Legitimacy in Contemporary Capitalism / Jason Read -- 9. Networks of Affiliation: Familialism and Anticorporatism in Black and White / Stephen Lucasi -- 10. Barksdale Women: Crime, Empire, and the Production of Gender / Courtney D. Marshall -- 11. After the Towers Fell: Bodie Broadus and the Space of Memory / Elizabeth Bonjean -- III. Twenty-first-Century Television -- 12. "The Dickensian Aspect": Melodrama, Viewer Engagement, and the Socially Conscious Text / Amanda Ann Klein -- 13. It's All Connected: Televisual Narrative Complexity / Ted Nanniceili -- 14. Dislocating America: Agnieszka Holland Directs "Moral Midgetry" / Kevin McNeilly -- 15. "Gots to Get Got": Social Justice and Audience Response to Omar Little / Kathleen Lebesco -- Episode List.
Subject Wire (Television program)
Wire (Television program)
Inner cities on television -- History and criticism.
Baltimore (Md.) -- In mass media -- History and criticism.
Added Author Potter, Tiffany, 1967-
Marshall, C. W., 1968-
ISBN 9780826438041 paperback
9780826423450 hardback
0826423450 hardback
0826438040 paperback