Williams On The Wire

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7644-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Spin Offs

In this sophisticated examination of the HBO serial drama that aired from 2002 until 2008, Linda Williams, a leading film scholar and authority on the interplay between film, melodrama, and issues of race, suggests what exactly it is that makes The Wire so good. She argues that its narrative power derives from its genre, popular melodrama.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Linda

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

Part I. World Enough and Time: The Genesis and Genius of The Wire

1. Ethnographic Imagination: From Journalism to Television Serial 11

2. Serial Television's World and Time: The Importance of the "Part" 37

Part II. Justice in The Wire: Tragedy, Realism, and Melodrama

3. "Classical" Tragedy, or. 79

4. Realistic, Modern Serial Melodrama 107

Part III. Surveillance, Schoolin', and Race

5. Hard Eyes / Soft Eyes: Surveillance and Schoolin' 139

6. Feeling Race: The Wire and the American Melodrama of Black and White 173

Conclusion: Home Sweet Baltimore 211

Notes 223

Bibliography 247

Index 255

Über Autor(innen)

Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Screening Sex and Porn Studies, both also published by Duke University Press; Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible." In 2013, Williams received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.