{"product_id":"connecting-the-wire-stanley-corkin-9781477311769","title":"Connecting The Wire: Race, Space, and Postindustrial Baltimore","description":"\u003cp\u003eCritically acclaimed as one of the best television shows ever produced, the HBO series \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e (2002-2008) is a landmark event in television history, offering a raw and dramatically compelling vision of the teeming drug trade and the vitality of life in the abandoned spaces of the postindustrial United States. With a sprawling narrative that dramatizes the intersections of race, urban history, and the neoliberal moment, \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e offers an intricate critique of a society riven by racism and inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConnecting The Wire\u003c\/i\u003e, Stanley Corkin presents the first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the entire series. Focusing on the show's depictions of the built environment of the city of Baltimore and the geographic dimensions of race and class, he analyzes how \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e's creator and showrunner, David Simon, uses the show to develop a social vision of its historical moment, as well as a device for critiquing many social \"givens.\" In \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e's gritty portrayals of drug dealers, cops, longshoremen, school officials and students, and members of the judicial system, Corkin maps a web of relationships and forces that define urban social life, and the lives of the urban underclass in particular, in the early twenty-first century. He makes a compelling case that, with its embedded history of race and race relations in the United States, \u003ci\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/i\u003e is perhaps the most sustained and articulate exploration of urban life in contemporary popular culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanley Corkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477311769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477311769\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2017","brand":"Stanley Corkin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965801742591,"sku":"9781477311769","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4389692a-299b-45af-9193-b487aca17ffa.jpg?v=1767284926","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/connecting-the-wire-stanley-corkin-9781477311769","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}