On the Wire

by Williams, Linda

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Title Statements

Full title :On the Wire / Linda Williams.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (vii, 267 pages) : : illustrations en partie en couleur.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781322029948, 1322029946
oclc:ocn971122670
LC Classification:PN1992.77.W53
Dewey Decimal:791.45/72

Acknowedgments -- Introduction -- Part I. World enough and time : the genesis and genius of the Wire. 1. Ethnographic imagination : from journalism to television serial -- 2. Serial television's world and time : the importance of the "part" -- Part II. Justice in the Wire : tragedy, realism, and melodrama. 3. "Classical" tragedy, or... -- 4. Realistic, modern serial melodrama -- Part III. Surveillance, schoolin' and race. 5. Hard eyes / soft eyes : surveillance and schoolin' -- 6. Feeling race : the Wire and the American melodrama of black and white -- Conclusion: Home sweet Baltimore -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.