02579nam 22005894a 450 991045947740332120200520144314.01-282-87642-297866128764241-4411-8268-3(CKB)2670000000051661(EBL)564206(OCoLC)676698395(SSID)ssj0000431256(PQKBManifestationID)11293752(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431256(PQKBWorkID)10475972(PQKB)11656324(MiAaPQ)EBC564206(MiAaPQ)EBC3003489(Au-PeEL)EBL564206(CaPaEBR)ebr10427308(Au-PeEL)EBL3003489(CaONFJC)MIL287642(OCoLC)928191965(EXLCZ)99267000000005166120100212d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Wire[electronic resource] urban decay and American television /edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. MarshallNew York Continuum20091 online resource (263 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8264-2345-0 0-8264-3804-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; "I am the American Dream": Modern Urban Tragedy and the Borders of Fiction; Baltimore before The Wire; I. Baltimore and Its Institutions; II. On the Corner; III. Twenty-first-Century Television; Works Cited; Episode List; Notes on Contributors; IndexThe 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 run (2002-2008), The Wire presents several overlapping narrative threads, all set in the city of Baltimore. The series consistently deconstrElectronic books.791.4572Potter Tiffany1967-865596Marshall C. W.1968-912665MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459477403321The Wire2459898UNINA