It Was TV: Teaching HBO's The Wire as a Television Series

Authors

Todd Sodano, St. John Fisher UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

3-18-2015

Keywords

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Abstract

Unlike most courses dedicated to The Wire that have examined race, class, criminal justice, urban studies, or education, Sodano foregrounds The Wire as a work of television and examines how it was taught to media majors and non-majors from aesthetic, cultural, technological, economic, and sociological perspectives. It is crucial to recognize The Wire as a piece of television because the circumstances surrounding its appearance on HBO provide context for how it was produced, distributed, and received.

Comments

Chapter from The Wire in the College Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches in the Humanities © 2015 Edited by Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey, by permission of McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/

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Publication Information

Sodano, Todd (2015). "It Was TV: Teaching HBO's The Wire as a Television Series." The Wire in the College Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches in the Humanities , 7-31.

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