The Wire : urban decay and American television / edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall.
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....
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Continuum,
2009.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 254 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441182685 1441182683 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |