LEADER 04218oam 22004814a 450 001 9910967628103321 005 20240513002018.0 010 $a9780814341520 010 $a0814341527 035 $a(CKB)4100000009751503 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5968076 035 $a(OCoLC)1126213061 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse74666 035 $a(Perlego)2998793 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009751503 100 $a20190528d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTreme$fJaimey Fisher 210 1$aDetroit :$cWayne State University Press,$d[2019] 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2019 210 4$dİ[2019] 215 $a1 online resource (x, 142 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aTv milestones series 311 08$a9780814341513 311 08$a0814341519 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 121-128) and index. 327 $aCover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Of Low and No Concepts: David Simon and Eric Overmyer's Art Television -- 2. Form and Content: Networked Narrative, Montage Maps, and Television Witnessing -- 3. New Orleans Music and Food: Affect and the Political Economy of Cultural Production -- 4. Networked Narrative and New Orleans's Criminal Justice System -- 5. The Concrete Abstractions of the Televisual City: Albert, Nelson, and Treme's Disaster Capitalism -- Conclusion: The Counter-publics of Albert's Mardi Gras Indians, Antoine's Musical Meanderings, and Simon/Overmyer's Treme -- References -- Index. 330 $a"In Treme, Jaimey Fisher analyzes how the HBO television series Treme (2010-13) treads new ground by engaging with historical events and their traumatic aftermaths, in particular with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and subsequent flooding in New Orleans. Instead of building up to a devastating occurrence, David Simon's much anticipated follow-up to The Wire (2002-08) unfolds with characters coping in the wake of catastrophe, in a mode that Fisher explores as "afterness." Treme charts these changes while also memorializing the number of New Orleans cultures that were immediately endangered. David Simon's and Eric Overmyer's Treme attempts something unprecedented for a multi-season series. Although the show follows, in some ways, in the celebrated footsteps of The Wire-for example, in its elegiac tracking of the historical struggles of an American city-Fisher investigates how Treme varies from The Wire's work with genre and what replaces it: The Wire is a careful, even baroque variation on the police drama, while Treme dispenses with genre altogether. This poses considerable challenges for popular television, which Simon and Overmyer address in several ways, including by offering a carefully montaged map of New Orleans and foregrounding the distance witnessing of watershed events there. Another way in which Treme sets itself apart is its memorialization of the city's inestimable contributions to American music, especially to jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, rap, rock, and funk. Treme gives such music and its many makers unprecedented attention, both in terms of screen time for music and narrative exposition around musicians. A key element of the volume is its look at the show's themes of race, crime, and civil rights as well as the corporate versus community recovery and remaking of the city. Treme's synthesizing melange of the arts in their specific geographical context, coupled with political and socio-economic analysis of the city, highlights the show's unique approach. Fans of the works of Simon and Overmyer, as well as television studies students and scholars, will enjoy this keen-eyed approach to a beloved show"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aContemporary approaches to film and television series.$pTV milestones. 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xOn television 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a791.45/72 700 $aFisher$b Jaimey$01616160 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967628103321 996 $aTreme$94357506 997 $aUNINA