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The wire : race, class, and genre

Title
The wire : race, class, and genre / Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro, editors.
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Kennedy, Liam, 1961-
  • Shapiro, Stephen, 1964-
Description
303 p. : ill.; 23 cm
Series Statement
Class: culture
Uniform Title
Class, culture.
Subject
  • Wire (Television program)
  • Race relations on television
  • Social classes on television
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: all the pieces that matter / Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro -- Form and genre. The wire in the context of American television / Jason Mittell -- The Wire and its readers / Frank Kelleter -- Rewiring Baltimore: the emotive power of systemics, seriality, and the city / Marsha Kinder -- "The game is the game": tautology and allegory in The wire / Paul Allen Anderson -- Neoliberal capitalism and the urban order. The case against Kojak liberalism / Carlo Rotella -- The wire: Bush-era fable about America's urban poor? / Peter Dreier and John Atlas -- Tales of the neoliberal city: The wire's boundary lines / Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro -- Elasticity of demand: reflections on The wire / John Kraniauskas -- Race, ethnicity, and class. Tracing The wire / Gary Phillips -- Drinking with McNulty: Irish American identity and spaces in The wire / Ruth Barton -- Contested memories: representing work in The wire / Sherry Linkon, Alexander Russo, and John Russo -- Policing the borders of white masculinity: labor, whiteness, and the neoliberal city in The wire / Hamilton Carroll.
Call Number
MWGT 13-1037
ISBN
  • 9780472071784 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0472071785 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780472051786 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0472051784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012012838
OCLC
791680199
Title
The wire : race, class, and genre / Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro, editors.
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.
Series
Class: culture
Class, culture.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Kennedy, Liam, 1961-
Shapiro, Stephen, 1964-
Research Call Number
MWGT 13-1037
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