On the Wire
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 The Wire so good. She argues that while the series is a powerful exploration of urban dysfunction and institutional failure, its narrative power derives from its genre. Entertaining, addictive, funny, and despairing all at once, it is a serial melodrama …
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- Full title :On the Wire / Linda Williams.
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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 The Wire so good. She argues that while the series is a powerful exploration of urban dysfunction and institutional failure, its narrative power derives from its genre. Entertaining, addictive, funny, and despairing all at once, it is a serial melodrama grounded in observation of Baltimore's people and institutions: of cops and criminals, schools and blue-collar labor, local government and local journalism.
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- Publication Date:©2014
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (267 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780822376446, 082237644X
- oclc:ocn873034766
- LC Classification:PN1992.77.W53
- Dewey Decimal:791.45/72
Table of 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.
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