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9780472051786: The Wire: Race, Class, and Genre
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ISBN 10: 0472051784 ISBN 13: 9780472051786
Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2012

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Few other television series have received as much academic, media, and fan celebration as The Wire, which has been called the best dramatic series ever created. The show depicts the conflict between Baltimore's police and criminals to raise a warning about race; drug war policing; deindustrialization; and the inadequacies of America’s civic, educational, and political institutions. The show's unflinching explorations of a city in crisis and its nuanced portrayals of those affected make it a show all about race and class in America.

The essays in this volume offer a range of astute critical responses to this television phenomenon. More consistently than any other crime show of its generation, The Wire challenges viewers' perceptions of the racialization of urban space and the media conventions that support this. The Wire reminds us of just how remarkably restricted the grammar of race is on American television and related media, and of the normative codings of race---as identity, as landscape---across urban narratives, from documentary to entertainment media.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Liam Kennedy is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. 

Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.



Liam Kennedy is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. 



Stephen Shapiro is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.

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Editore
Univ of Michigan Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0472051784
ISBN 13 
9780472051786
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
303
Redattore
Kennedy Liam, Shapiro Stephen
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