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" The Wire : "
edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall
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BL
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637785
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| Title & Author
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The Wire : : urban decay and American television /\ edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Continuum,, 2009
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vii, 254 p. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780826423450 (hbk.)
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: 0826423450 (hbk.)
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: 9780826438041 (pbk.)
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: 0826438040 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index
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| Contents
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"I am the American Dream": Modern Urban Tragedy and the Borders of Fiction / C. W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter -- Baltimore before The Wire / Afaa M. Weaver -- I. Baltimore and Its Institutions -- 1. Yesterday's Tomorrow Today: Baltimore and the Promise of Reform / David M. Alff -- 2. "We ain't got no yard": Crime, Development, and Urban Environment / Peter Clandfield -- 3. Heroism, Institutions, and the Police Procedural / Alastair McMillan -- 4. "The Narrative Production or "Real Police" / Ryan Brooks -- 5. "I Got the Shotgun, You Got the Briefcase": Lawyering and Ethics / Lynne Viti -- 6. Posing Problems and Picking Fights: Critical Pedagogy and the Corner Boys / Ralph Beliveau and Laura Bolf-Beliveau -- II. On the Corner -- 7. Corner-Boy Masculinity: Intersections of Inner-City Manhood / James Braxton Peterson -- 8. Stringer Bell's Lament: Violence and Legitimacy in Contemporary Capitalism / Jason Read -- 9. Networks of Affiliation: Familialism and Anticorporatism in Black and White / Stephen Lucasi -- 10. Barksdale Women: Crime, Empire, and the Production of Gender / Courtney D. Marshall -- 11. After the Towers Fell: Bodie Broadus and the Space of Memory / Elizabeth Bonjean -- III. Twenty-first-Century Television -- 12. "The Dickensian Aspect": Melodrama, Viewer Engagement, and the Socially Conscious Text / Amanda Ann Klein -- 13. It's All Connected: Televisual Narrative Complexity / Ted Nanniceili -- 14. Dislocating America: Agnieszka Holland Directs "Moral Midgetry" / Kevin McNeilly -- 15. "Gots to Get Got": Social Justice and Audience Response to Omar Little / Kathleen Lebesco -- Episode List
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Inner cities-- On television-- History and criticism
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Wire (Television program)
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Baltimore (Md.), In mass media, History and criticism
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| Dewey Classification
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791.4572
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PN1992.77.W53W57 2009
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Potter, Tiffany,1967-
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Marshall, C. W.,1968-
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