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Alberto N. García Martínez, Universidad de Navarra Contemporary Serial Culture (Potsdam, 14-16 January 2010) The Corners The Port The City Hall The School The Press Clark Johnson David Simon “Relations of power and discipline are inscribed into the apparently innocent spatiality of social life” (Edward Soja) “She was talking to those people about the actual problems in their neighbourhood” (Jay Karnes) The Wire and The Shield explore “the mechanisms of documentary” and reveal “that fictional cinema can also give priority to the referential effect when setting characters, things and ideas from the fictional world in a real universe that, geographically and temporally, might have already been perfectly defined” (Angel Quintana) A “fragmented narration” that, “remains well attuned to the violently fragmented spaces and times of the late-modern world” (Dimenberg) Marc Augé labels the non-place as a space “that cannot be defined as relational, or historical or concerned with identity”. Marc Augé labels the non-place as a space “that cannot be defined as relational, or historical or concerned with identity”. The Wire and The Shield‟s vision “of the abysmal city flaunts ambivalences about the relationship between the individual and the community” (Frank Krutnik) “Capitalism is the ultimate god in The Wire. Capitalism is Zeus” (David Simon) “Underlying The Wire‟s story-arc is the conviction that social exclusión and corruption do not exist in spite of the system but because of it” (Sheehan and Sweeney, in Jumpcut, p. 4) “I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It‟s all in the game, though, right?” (Omar) “By consistently privileging Mackey‟s maverick solutions to the problems of law enforcement (…), The Shield presents this „natural‟ Justice as being an essential precondition for the existence of a social order (…), in which we have the luxury of moral principle or ethical law enforcement at all” (Chopra-Gant) Alberto N. García Martínez ([email protected]) Universidad de Navarra.

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