ENGL 598U: Watching the Wire: Urban America, Race, and Television

ENGL 598U: Watching the Wire: Urban America, Race, and Television

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Required Readings

  • Who Gets to Tell a Black Story?
  • The Wire-Big Brother Not Watching
  • Have You Seen “The Wire”?
  • Simon Two Americas
  • Simon Letter to HBO
  • How America Lost the War on Drugs
  • I Am the American Dream
  • Jagoda – WIRED
  • The Wire Repair Journalistic Paradigm
  • Encoding and Decoding
  • Ott and Mack – Queer Analysis
  • The Wire Narrative and MetaNarrative
  • Barksdale Women
  • Politics of Baltimore
  • Don’t Take Too Much
  • The Whites of Their Eyes
  • Is The Wire Too Cynical?
  • In Defense of The Wire
  • Way Down in the Hole
  • The Wire’s Impact
  • Rules of the Game
  • Gots to Get Got
  • Simon on Hector as Marlo Stanfield
  • Scene Never Make Bonus Disk
  • Walking in Someone Else’s City

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