Connecting The Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore

by Stanley Corkin

Book Overview

Critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series The Wire (2002-2008) is a landmark event in television history, offering a raw and dramatically compelling vision of the teeming drug trade and the vitality of life in the abandoned spaces of the postindustrial United States. With a sprawling narrative that dramatizes the intersections of race, urban history, and the neoliberal moment, The Wire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477311769
• ISBN13: 9781477311769
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"