LEADER 03633nam 2200553 450 001 9910792557303321 005 20230126214956.0 010 $a1-4773-1178-5 024 7 $a10.7560/311769 035 $a(CKB)3710000001010574 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4785164 035 $a(DE-B1597)588717 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477311783 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001010574 100 $a20180509d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConnecting the Wire $erace, space, and postindustrial Baltimore /$fStanley Corkin 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 241 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aTexas film and media studies series 311 $a1-4773-1176-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index. 327 $aSeason 1 : drugs, race, and the structures of social immobility -- Season 2 : the wire, the waterfront, and the ravages of neoliberalism -- Season 3 : drugs, space, and redevelopment -- Season 4 : a neoliberal education: space, knowledge, and schooling -- Season 5 : the demise of the public sphere--news, lies, and policing -- Conclusion : the Wire and the new dawn (maybe). 330 $aCritically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002?2008) is a landmark event in television history, offering a raw and dramatically compelling vision of the teeming drug trade and the vitality of life in the abandoned spaces of the postindustrial United States. With a sprawling narrative that dramatizes the intersections of race, urban history, and the neoliberal moment, The Wire offers an intricate critique of a society riven by racism and inequality. In Connecting The Wire , Stanley Corkin presents the first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the entire series. Focusing on the show?s depictions of the built environment of the city of Baltimore and the geographic dimensions of race and class, he analyzes how The Wire?s creator and showrunner, David Simon, uses the show to develop a social vision of its historical moment, as well as a device for critiquing many social ?givens.? In The Wire?s gritty portrayals of drug dealers, cops, longshoremen, school officials and students, and members of the judicial system, Corkin maps a web of relationships and forces that define urban social life, and the lives of the urban underclass in particular, in the early twenty-first century. He makes a compelling case that, with its embedded history of race and race relations in the United States, The Wire is perhaps the most sustained and articulate exploration of urban life in contemporary popular culture. 410 0$aTexas film and media studies series. 606 $aTelevision programs$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRace relations on television 606 $aSocial classes on television 606 $aTelevision programs$xSocial aspects 607 $aBaltimore (Md.)$vDrama 615 0$aTelevision programs$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRace relations on television. 615 0$aSocial classes on television. 615 0$aTelevision programs$xSocial aspects. 676 $a791.45/72 700 $aCorkin$b Stanley$01495725 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792557303321 996 $aConnecting the Wire$93719976 997 $aUNINA