Focusing on twelve innovative television dramas that changed the medium and the culture at large (including The Sopranos, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24, Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad) Sepinwall weave…
The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television
A collection of essays on a show that has taken the art of television drama to different heights.
Serializing age: aging and old age in TV series
by Oró Piqueras, Maricel, Wohlmann, Anita
fromAging studies
Argues that HBO, as part of the leading edge of television, is at the center of television studies' interests in market positioning, style, content, technology, and political economy. This book gives readers a space wherein they find sustained investigations and varied responses…
Examining The Wire: authenticity and curated realism
by Twomey, Ryan
fromPalgrave Pivot