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The Politics of Hbo's the Wire: Everything Is Connected
Hardcover
Series: Popular Culture and World Politics
TelevisionGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Political Science
ISBN13: 9780415854108
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 15 2014
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.
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