The Wire

Ben Lamb

doi:10.5771/9781538181218

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-8120-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-8121-8
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 222
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. CONTENTS No access
3. 1. 1. Spearheaded a New Era of Quality TV No access
    2. Enhanced Televisual Storytelling No access
    3. Portrays Baltimore City as a Character No access
    4. Provides Ample In-Depth Characters No access
    5. Brought British Social Realism to American TV No access
    6. Educates Viewers in Greek Mythology and the Classics No access
    7. Shifted the War on Drugs Debate No access
    8. Predicted the Future Political Landscape No access
    9. It Laid the Foundations for Streaming TV No access
    10. Its Social Impact Lives On No access
Chapter 1: Producing a Television Classic: How The Wire Came to Be No access Pages 1 - 16
1. Dominic West as Jimmy McNulty No access
2. Wendell Pierce as Bunk Moreland No access
3. Idris Elba as Stringer Bell No access
4. Wood Harris as Avon Barksdale No access
5. Andre Royo as Bubbles No access
6. Michael K. Williams as Omar Little No access
7. Sonja Sohn as Shakima Greggs No access
1. Dragnet (1952–1959) No access
2. Naked City (1958–1963) No access
3. Kojak (1973–1978) No access
4. Starsky and Hutch (1975–1979) and the Buddy Genre No access
5. Hill Street Blues (1981–1987) No access
6. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) No access
7. NYPD Blue (1993–2005) No access
8. All the Pieces Matter No access
1. Season 2 Enters Production No access
2. A History of the Port of Baltimore—Courtesy of McNulty No access
3. The Sobotkas No access
4. A History of Racial Discrimination at Baltimore’s Docks No access
5. The Barksdales No access
1. The War on Drugs No access
2. Season 3 No access
3. Currie’s Four Models of Drug Use No access
4. Decriminalizing Drugs and Political Science No access
5. Hamsterdam’s Policy Characteristics No access
6. The Wider Political Environment No access
1. Plot No access
2. Baltimore County Public Schools No access
3. 1. 1. What Posters, Messages, and Slogans are Displayed in the Classroom? No access
  2. 2. Student/Teacher Interactions No access
  3. 3. Managing Student Resistance No access
4. 1. 1. Discovering Racism No access
  2. 2. Subversion/Negation of the American Dream No access
  3. 3. Choosing between Rebellion/Submissiveness No access
  4. 4. Killing the Father No access
  5. 5. Crossing Class Lines No access
  6. 6. Concluding through Deferral No access
1. The Baltimore Sun, 1837– No access
2. Populism as Ideology No access
3. Populism as a Strategy No access
4. Populism as Performance No access
5. 1. 1. Dramatization No access
  2. 2. Personalization No access
  3. 3. Titillation No access
  4. 4. Structured Access No access
  5. 5. Immediacy No access
  6. 6. Novelty, 7. Conventionalism, and 8. Oversimplification No access
1. On Universities No access
2. On Baltimore City No access
3. On Rioting No access
4. On Black Lives Matter (BLM) No access
5. On Drugs No access
6. We Own This City No access
7. “It’s All in the Game” No access
1. Episode 1.2: “The Detail” No access
2. Episode 1.4: “Old Cases” No access
3. Episode 1.9: “Game Day” No access
4. Episode 1.12: “Cleaning Up” No access
5. Episode 2.6: “All Prologue” No access
6. Episode 2.10: “Storm Warnings” No access
7. Episode 2.11: “Bad Dreams” No access
8. Episode 3.6: “Homecoming” No access
9. Episode 3.8: “Moral Midgetry” No access
10. Episode 3.11: “Middle Ground” (Emmy Nominated) No access
11. Episode 4.3: “Home Rooms” No access
12. Episode 4.10 “Misgivings” No access
13. Episode 4.11: “A New Day” No access
14. Episode 5.8: “Clarifications” No access
15. Episode 5.9: “Late Editions” No access
16. Episode 5.10: “-30-” (Emmy Nominated) No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Chapter 1 No access
3. Chapter 2 No access
4. Chapter 3 No access
5. Chapter 4 No access
6. Chapter 5 No access
7. Chapter 6 No access
8. Chapter 7 No access
9. Conclusion No access
Bibliography No access Pages 201 - 214
Index No access Pages 215 - 220
About the Author No access Pages 221 - 222