The Wire [[electronic resource] ] : urban decay and American television / / edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Continuum, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.4572
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PotterTiffany <1967-> MarshallC. W. <1968->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Wire
• ISBN: 1-282-87642-2; 9786612876424; 1-4411-8268-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459477403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II