LEADER 02579nam 22005894a 450 001 9910459477403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-87642-2 010 $a9786612876424 010 $a1-4411-8268-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000051661 035 $a(EBL)564206 035 $a(OCoLC)676698395 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000431256 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11293752 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431256 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10475972 035 $a(PQKB)11656324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC564206 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003489 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL564206 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10427308 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3003489 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL287642 035 $a(OCoLC)928191965 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000051661 100 $a20100212d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe Wire$b[electronic resource] $eurban decay and American television /$fedited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall 210 $aNew York $cContinuum$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-2345-0 311 $a0-8264-3804-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index. 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aThe 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 deconstr 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a791.4572 701 $aPotter$b Tiffany$f1967-$0865596 701 $aMarshall$b C. W.$f1968-$0912665 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459477403321 996 $aThe Wire$92459898 997 $aUNINA