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On the Wire / Linda Williams.
- Title
- On the Wire / Linda Williams.
- Author
- Williams, Linda, 1946-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PN1992.77.W53 W52 2014 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 267 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- In this sophisticated examination of the HBO serial drama that aired from 2002 until 2008, Linda Williams, a leading film scholar and authority on the interplay between film, melodrama, and issues of race, suggests what exactly it is that makes The Wire so good. She argues that while the series is a powerful exploration of urban dysfunction and institutional failure, its narrative power derives from its genre. Entertaining, addictive, funny, and despairing all at once, it is a serial melodrama grounded in observation of Baltimore's people and institutions: of cops and criminals, schools and blue-collar labor, local government and local journalism.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- World enough and time: the genesis and genius of the Wire -- Justice in the Wire: tragedy, realism, and melodrama -- Surveillance, schoolin' and race -- Conclusion: home sweet Baltimore.
- ISBN
- 9780822357063 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822357062 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780822357179 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0822357178 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2014000762
- OCLC
- 869367490
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library