Cvek, Sven. (2014). Following the Money: The Wire and Distant American Studies. Sic : časopis za književnost, kulturu i književno prevođenje, 4(2).
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Abstract
In this essay, I argue that the pedagogical, or, more generally, heuristic potential of HBO’s crime drama The Wire (2002/2008) is related to the specific institutional developments in post-network television, the show’s didactic intention, and its focus on the delineation of the economic process, or what has been called its “openly class-based” politics. I will dedicate most time to the latter, as it represents a particularly welcome intervention for American Studies, a discipline in which the problem of class has usually been either marginalized, or articulated in terms of the historically hegemonic disciplinary paradigm, that of identity.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | The Wire; American studies; cognitive mapping; capitalism; TV; HBO |
Subjects: | English language and literature > American Studies English language and literature Philosophy Pedagogy |
Departments: | Department of English Language and Literature |
Date Deposited: | 07 May 2019 11:47 |
Last Modified: | 07 May 2019 11:47 |
URI: | http://darhiv.ffzg.unizg.hr/id/eprint/9921 |
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