Serial Agencies: The Wire and Its Readers
Serial Agencies investigates how public and academic reactions to The Wire have contributed to the narrative's serial evolution and cultural performance.
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Serial Agencies: The Wire and Its Readers
Serial Agencies investigates how public and academic reactions to The Wire have contributed to the narrative's serial evolution and cultural performance.
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Serial Agencies: The Wire and Its Readers

Serial Agencies: The Wire and Its Readers

by Frank Kelleter
Serial Agencies: The Wire and Its Readers

Serial Agencies: The Wire and Its Readers

by Frank Kelleter

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Overview

Serial Agencies investigates how public and academic reactions to The Wire have contributed to the narrative's serial evolution and cultural performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782795391
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 09/26/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 125
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Frank Kelleter is Chair of the Department of Culture and Einstein Professor of North American Cultural History at John F. Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität Berlin. His main fields of interest include the American colonial and Enlightenment periods, theories of American modernity, and American media and popular culture since the 19th century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Introduction 1

1 Self-Descriptions 3

Outdoing HBO 6

Supplanting the Novel 14

Complicating the Series 22

2 Hetero-Descriptions 32

Selective Duplication 33

Downward Identification 40

Activist Concern 46

Upward Recognition 50

Analytical Dislocation 55

3 Habits 62

Hardboiled, Sentimental Nation 63

Visibility and Commitment 67

Finding Oneself on Television 73

Notes 79

Works Cited 101

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