Includes index.
Introduction: all the pieces that matter / Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro
Form and genre. The wire in the context of American television / Jason Mittell
The Wire and its readers / Frank Kelleter
Rewiring Baltimore: the emotive power of systemics, seriality, and the city / Marsha Kinder
"The game is the game": tautology and allegory in The wire / Paul Allen Anderson
Neoliberal capitalism and the urban order. The case against Kojak liberalism / Carlo Rotella
The wire: Bush-era fable about America's urban poor? / Peter Dreier and John Atlas
Tales of the neoliberal city: The wire's boundary lines / Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro
Elasticity of demand: reflections on The wire / John Kraniauskas
Race, ethnicity, and class. Tracing The wire / Gary Phillips
Drinking with McNulty: Irish American identity and spaces in The wire / Ruth Barton
Contested memories: representing work in The wire / Sherry Linkon, Alexander Russo, and John Russo
Policing the borders of white masculinity: labor, whiteness, and the neoliberal city in The wire / Hamilton Carroll.
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The wire : race, class, and genre. ISBN 9780472051786. Published by University of Michigan Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
