Wire: Urban Decay and American Television

1. Aafa Weaver, "Baltimore before The Wire"; 2. C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter, "'I am the American Dream': Modern Urban Tragedy and the Borders of Fiction"; Part A. Baltimore and its Institutions; 3. David Alff, "Yesterday's Tomorrow Today: Baltimore and the Promise of Reform"; 4. Peter Clandfield, "We ain't got no yard': Crime, Development and Urban Environment". 5. Alisdair McMillan, "Heroism, Institutions, and the Police Procedural"; 6. Ryan Brooks, "Once That Tape Starts Rolling...': The Production of 'Real Police'"; 7. Lynne Viti, "I got the Shotgun, You got the Briefcase': Judging, Lawyering, and Ethics"; 8. Ralph Beliveau and Laura Bolf-Beliveau, "Posing Problems and Picking Fights: Critical Pedagogy and the Corner Boys"; Part B. In the Vacants; 9. James Peterson, "On the Corners of Black Masculinity: Hip Hop Culture and the Intersections of Inner City Manhood"; 10. Jason Read, "Stringer Bell's Lament: Violence and Legitimacy in Contemporary Capitalism"; 11. Stephen Lucasi, "Networks of (Af)filiation: Familialism and Anti-Corporatism"; 12. Courtney Marshall, "Barksdale Women: Crime, Empire, and the Production of Gender"; 13. Elizabeth Bonjean, "After the Towers Fell: Bodie Broadus and the Space of Memory"; Part C. Twenty-first Century Television; 14. Amanda Ann Klein, "The Dickensian Aspect': Melodrama, Viewer Engagement and the Socially Conscious Text"; 15. Ted Nannicelli, "'It's All Connected': Notes on the Teleplays"; 16. Kevin McNeilly, "Dislocating America: Agnieszka Holland Directs 'Moral Midgetry'"; 17. Kathleen LeBesco, "Social Justice and Audience Response to Omar Little"; Bibliography, Episode List, Notes on Contributors, Index.

By focusing on four main topics (Crime, Law Enforcement, America and Television), All in the Game examines The Wire's place within popular culture and its representation of the realities of inner city life, social institutions, and politics in contemporar

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