{"product_id":"connecting-the-wire-race-space-and-postindustrial-baltimore-paperback-softback-9781477311776","title":"Connecting the Wire; Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477311776","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eConnecting the Wire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eStanley Corkin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477311776, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 February 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.426 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e[A] smart, engaging book-length examination . . . . Stanley Corkin, in his deep analysis, approaches David Simon’s masterful series from a media studies perspective without losing any of the sociological focus.\u003c\/div\u003e (Film International) \u003cdiv\u003eDespite \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e's run on HBO ending in 2008, many of the themes and topics examined are still relevant today. . . \u003ci\u003eConnecting the Wire\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive resource for utilizing the HBO series as a device for further geographic, sociological, and media studies research and discussions. Whether a loyal viewer of the series while it aired, or someone only vaguely familiar with the show (which can easily still be binged watched today), Corkin's treatment of the television show provides depth, insight and context for what the back cover touts as \"critically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Popular Culture Studies Journal) \u003cdiv\u003eA careful analysis of the popular HBO television series \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e...\u003ci\u003eConnecting the Wire\u003c\/i\u003e is an important read for…scholars of race, poverty and urban inequality. Corkin works to analyze The Wire in the context of some of the important discussions about deindustrialization and urban decline. \u003ci\u003eConnecting the Wire\u003c\/i\u003e is also an important tool or those who teach in this area.\u003c\/div\u003e (Ethnic and Racial Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e (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, \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intricate critique of a society riven by racism and inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConnecting \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, Stanley Corkin presents the first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the entire series. Focusing on the show’s depictions of the built environment of the city of Baltimore and the geographic dimensions of race and class, he analyzes how \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e’s creator and showrunner, David Simon, uses the show to develop a social vision of its historical moment, as well as a device for critiquing many social “givens.” In \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e’s gritty portrayals of drug dealers, cops, longshoremen, school officials and students, and members of the judicial system, Corkin maps a web of relationships and forces that define urban social life, and the lives of the urban underclass in particular, in the early twenty-first century. He makes a compelling case that, with its embedded history of race and race relations in the United States, \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e is perhaps the most sustained and articulate exploration of urban life in contemporary popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne. Season 1: Drugs, Race, and the Structures of Social Immobility\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo. Season 2: The Wire, the Waterfront, and the Ravages of Neoliberalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree. Season 3: Drugs, Space, and Redevelopment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour. Season 4: A Neoliberal Education: Space, Knowledge, and Schooling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive. Season 5: The Demise of the Public Sphere-News, Lies, and Policing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion: The Wire and the New Dawn (Maybe)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52652658163992,"sku":"9781477311776","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/connecting-the-wire-race-space-and-postindustrial-baltimore-paperback-softback-9781477311776","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}