MDIA 464 Topics in Television Studies
The Wire has been called the best television program of all time. What makes it so? This course seeks to understand this claim through an examination of The Wire in terms of its relationship to contemporary television practices and to television scholarship on genre, authorship and serial narrative. At the same time this course will explore how The Wire's thematic structure represents issues of criminality, deindustrialization, gentrification, drug legalization, educational reform, and journalism.
Prerequisite
MDIA 201 or department consent