Beschreibung:
This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary America, but a structural critique of the conditions of late-modernity and global capitalism. As such, it is a visual text worth investigating and exploring for its nuanced examination of power, difference and inequality.
INTRODUCTION: Everything is Connected, Shirin S. Deylami & Jonathan Havercroft PART ONE: Building States, Crumbling Nations, 1. It Can't Be a Lie': The Wire as Breaching Experiment, Joshua Page & Joe Soss 2. Classroom Democracy: De-mystifying the Civic Nation in The Wire, Paul Goode PART TWO: Neo-Liberalism, Capitalist Power and Social Resistance 3. The Politics of Knowledge Production: On Structure and the World of "The Wire, Isaac Kamola 4. Corruption as Solidarity: An Inverted Republicanism to Resist Inverted Totalitarianism, Jonathan Havercroft 5. The Limits of Neoliberalism: Market Rationality in The Wire, Elisabeth Anker PART THREE: Precarious Intersections 6. "It's All in the Game": Masculinism, Mourning, and Violence in The Wire, Shirin S. Deylami 7. Seeing Gender Like a Wired State: The Missing Women of the Wire, Dara Z. Strolovitch & Naomi Murakawa