Wire and America's Dark Corners

Critical Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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In post-9/11 America, while all eyes were on Iraq and Afghanistan, The Wire (2002-2008) focused on the dark realities of those living in America's disintegrating industrial heartlands and drug-ravaged neighborhoods, striving against the odds in its schools, hospitals and legal system.With compelling story lines and a memorable cast of characters, The Wire has been compared to the work of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, with a level of detail rarely seen in a dramatic series. While the show garnered critical praise and a loyal following, a discussion of its political aspects--in particular Bush-era America--is overdue.This collection of new essays examines The Wire in terms of the War on Drugs, the racial and economic division of America's cities, the surveillance state and the meaning of citizenship.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-04-21
Mått152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt322 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor236
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786479184

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vPreface 1Introduction 3Part One. Bad Dreams: American Identity Post–9/11History, Freedom and Bureaucracy (Andrew Moore) 13Mythological Fictions and the Game Paradigm (Niall Heffernan) 31The American Dream: Capital, Codes and Consensus in the Early 21st Century (Michael Gow) 49“It’s all in the game”: Citizenship as the “Missing Middle” (Michael Lister) 67Part Two. The Target: The War on Drugs and Its CostThe Corners of Crime (Robert Andersson, Jørgen Bruhn and Anne Gjelsvik) 81The Paper Bag Compromise: Hiding the Problem of Drug Dependency in Hamsterdam (J.D. Taylor) 95Insurgency, Accidental Guerrillas and Gang Culture (Tiffany Potter and Tobias Sirzyk) 114The War on Drugs and the War on Terror (Arin Keeble) 133Part Three. The Detail: Domestic Policy in Bush-era America Rethinking Space (Anca M. Pusca) 153Watching, Policing: Surveillance and Complicity (Ivan Stacy) 170A Dystopian Fable About America’s Urban Poor (Peter Dreier and John Atlas) 192Post–9/11 Educational Reform and the Epistemology of Ignorance: A Critique of No Child Left Behind (Laura Bolf-Beliveau and Ralph Beliveau) 208About the Contributors 221Index 225