'A City upon a Hill': The Wire and Its Distillation of the United States Polity. (October 2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'A City upon a Hill': The Wire and Its Distillation of the United States Polity. (October 2014)
- Main Title:
- 'A City upon a Hill': The Wire and Its Distillation of the United States Polity
- Authors:
- Wheeler, Mark
- Abstract:
- The Home Box Office's series The Wire (2002–2008) provides an informed critique of the decline of the democratic American ideal of the 'city upon a hill'. From its inception as a police procedural, it expanded its interests across the dystopian city of Baltimore to consider the linkage between drug crimes, policing, the collapse of blue-collar life, social deprivation, institutional compromise, the public school system, media compliance and political self-interest. Therefore, this article will situate The Wire into the debates that have defined the US polity and will discuss how it employs the narrative conventions of a contemporary thriller to offer an alternative view of American democracy.
- Is Part Of:
- Politics. Volume 34:Number 3(2014)
- Journal:
- Politics
- Issue:
- Volume 34:Number 3(2014)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 34, Issue 3 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 34
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0034-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 237
- Page End:
- 247
- Publication Date:
- 2014-10
- Subjects:
- The Wire -- American politics -- popular culture and politics
Political science -- Periodicals
320 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-9256/issues ↗
http://pol.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/1467-9256.12044 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0263-3957
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 6543.937500
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