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The Wire Urban Decay and American Television 1St Edition Free Download FREE THE WIRE URBAN DECAY AND AMERICAN TELEVISION 1ST EDITION PDF Tiffany Potter | 9780826438041 | | | | | The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television - Google книги Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — The Wire by Tiffany Potter. Marshall Editor. James Peterson Contributor. Jason Read Contributor. Stephen Lucasi Contributor. Elizabeth Bonjean Contributor. Amanda Ann Klein Contributor. Ted Nannicelli Contributor. Kevin McNeilly Contributor. Kathleen LeBesco Contributor. Aafa Weaver Contributor. David Alff Contributor. Peter Clandfield Contributor. Alisdair McMillan Contributor. Ryan Brooks Contributor. Lynne Viti Goodreads Author Contributor. Ralph Beliveau Contributor. Laura Bolf-Beliveau Contributor. The first collection of critical essays on HBO's The Wire - the most brilliant and socially relevant television series in years The Wire is about survival, about the strategies adopted by those living and working in the inner cities of America. It presents a world where for many even hope isn't an option, where life operates as day-to-day existence without education, withou The first collection of critical essays on HBO's The Wire - the most brilliant and socially relevant television series in years The Wire is about survival, about the strategies adopted by those living and working in the inner cities of America. It presents a world where for many even hope isn't an option, where life operates as day-to-day existence without education, without job security, and without social structures. This is a world that is only grey, an exacting autopsy of a side of American life that has never seen the inside of a Starbucks. Over its five season, sixty-episode runThe Wire presented several overlapping narrative threads, all set in the city of Baltimore. The series consistently deconstructed the conventional narratives of law, order, and disorder, offering a view of America that has never before been admitted to the public discourse of the televisual. It was bleak and at times excruciating. Even when the show made metatextual reference to its own world as Dickensian, it was too gentle by half. By focusing on four main topics Crime, Law Enforcement, America, and TelevisionThe Wire: Urban Decay and American Television examines the series' place within popular culture and its representation of the realities of inner city life, social institutions, and politics in contemporary American society. This is a brilliant collection of essays on a show that has taken the art of television drama to new heights. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published December 10th by Bloomsbury Academic first published November 1st More Details Other Editions 3. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Wireplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Mar 14, Carol Storm rated it it was amazing. Fascinating look at crime in Baltimore and the HBO drama -- sometimes The Wire Urban Decay and American Television 1st edition lot more interesting than the show itself! Feb 16, Benito Jr. I rarely give out five stars, especially to an essay collection where the quality can be uneven. But this is just fantastic: a highly readable selection of scholarly essays -- mostly from professors of English, actually, but The Wire Urban Decay and American Television 1st edition essays are written from a more sociological perspective. Doubtless the fact that I love the television show -- perhaps the greatest in the history of the medium, but take my hyperbole with a grain of salt -- has much to do with my appreciation of the book. The variety o I rarely give out five stars, especially to an essay collection where the quality can be uneven. Foucault is mentioned a lot -- not just because of the theme of surveillance running throughout the show, but because, like Foucault, The Wire takes as its main topic the nature of modern institutions and the distribution and exercise of power within them. Of course, the book won't make much sense to folks who haven't seen the show. But for fans who want to delve further into the rich, complexly layered world of The Wire -- and The Wire Urban Decay and American Television 1st edition just read a book that merely features making-of anecdotes or behind-the-scenes gossip though I'd be happy to read that too -- this book is highly recommended. May 18, Benjamin Fasching-Gray rated it really liked it Shelves: film-tv. My main beef with this book is that I wanted more. The book is divided into 3 parts, the first is about Baltimore, the second is a set of chapters that examine how the Wire approaches various social issues, and the third analyzes the story-telling and film-making. I wanted more about Baltimore, about the histories of some of the locations and food, not just about the crime. The chapter on the two lawyers, Perlman and Levy, was a lot of fun. In the second part, there was a weak chapter that broug My main beef with this book is that I wanted more. In the The Wire Urban Decay and American Television 1st edition part, there was a weak chapter that brought some Foucault in, and I thought, if you understand even a little of what Foucault is on about, then you've already thought what this chapter is The Wire Urban Decay and American Television 1st edition, and if you've never checked Foucault, you won't know what that chapter is saying. The other bits in the second part were great though, I like the Marxian thing, and there is a bit about gender, and some great stuff about how the Wire is actually conservative on the subject of policing and police powers. But I wanted more. The gender bit, especially, was focused on the Barksdale wives, sisters and mothers but what about the women in Omar's crew? What about Kima and Cheryl? Probably the most moving stuff in here were the chapters focusing on the corner boys of season 4 and critical pedagogy. Finally, the third part I want a whole book like that I want more about that. I also want more about little stuff. I wish I knew who invented Chicken McNuggets, and whether he is in the basement, figuring out how to make the shakes taste better, or if Ronald McDonald wrote his clowny-ass name on a big-ass check for the man who took the bone all the way out of the chicken. But I guess wanting more is the The Wire Urban Decay and American Television 1st edition situation for fans of this show. View all 4 comments. Sep 19, Isaac Yuen rated it liked it The Wire Urban Decay and American Television 1st edition literary-criticism-analysisnon-fiction. But then again, the show is so rich that I felt that there is absolutely no shortage of material and perspectives for another collection. Because the collection covers such a broad spectrum of topics, its appeal may fluctuate from essay to essay. Dec 18, Liz Barr rated it it was ok Shelves: media-tie-in. And urban decay. And American television. Frustrating because these are proper academic essays, yet they repeatedly failed at feminism and intersectionality. Some poor editing there, imho. Feb 08, Linda rated it it was amazing. This is an excellent collection of essays by professors of English, journalism, film studies, philosophy, and more. Not only does it include a reference list for cites, but it is quite mentally stimulating. I was tired of just reading critiques. This book connects The Wire themes, characters, and issues to Foucault, the French post-structuralist, and critical philosophy. Although this collection is way above my developmental students' heads, I can break some things down into everyday language fo This is an excellent collection of essays by professors of English, journalism, film studies, philosophy, and more. Although this collection is way above my The Wire Urban Decay and American Television 1st edition students' heads, I can break some things down into everyday language for them. The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television by Tiffany Potter Qty : Please note there is a week delivery period for this title. The first collection of critical essays on HBO's The Wire - the most brilliant and socially relevant television series in years The Wire is about survival, about the strategies adopted by those living and working in the inner cities of America. It presents a world where for many even hope isn't an option, where life operates as day-to-day existence without education, without job security, and without social structures. This is a world that The Wire Urban Decay and American Television 1st edition only grey, an exacting autopsy of a side of American life that has never seen the inside of a Starbucks. Over its five season, sixty-episode runThe Wire presented several overlapping narrative threads, all set in the city of Baltimore. The series consistently deconstructed the conventional narratives of law, order, and disorder, offering a view of America that has never before been admitted to the public discourse of the televisual. It was bleak and at times excruciating. Even when the show made metatextual reference to its own world as Dickensian, it was too gentle by half. By focusing on four main topics Crime, Law Enforcement, America, and TelevisionThe Wire: Urban Decay and American Television examines the series' place within popular culture and its representation of the realities of inner city life, social institutions, and politics in contemporary American society.
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