Title The wire in the college classroom : pedagogical approaches in the humanities / edited by Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey

Published Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, ©2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction (Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey) -- Part I: Media -- It Was TV: Teaching HBO's The Wire as a Television Series (Todd M. Sodano) -- The Angriest Auteur on Television: Teaching Media Authorship Through David Simon (Alex M. Kupfer) -- Post-Network Era Television, Cultural Hierarchies and Sociological Uses of The Wire Beyond Urban Inequality (Michael L. Wayne) -- Part II: Writing and Narrative -- "Dope on the damn table": Narrative Discourse in The Wire and African American Literature (Paul D. Reich) -- "They're not learning for our world -- they're learning for theirs": Changing the First Year Writing Experience (Karen Dillon and Naomi Crummey) -- Exercises in Revision and Form (Michael Ennis) -- Closure in the Classroom: "Final Grades" (C.W. Marshall and Tiffany Potter) -- Part III: Ethics and Rhetoric -- "The gods will not save you": Teaching Ethics with The Wire (James W. McCarty III) -- Good Lives in Tragic Worlds (Nathan P. Gilmour) -- Wallace's Choice (Tom Nurmi) -- Part IV: Education and Literacy -- Reading the Scene: Discourse, Literacy and Pedagogy Through The Wire (Daniel Listoe) -- The Wire at a Distance: The Socio-Cultural Determination of Meaning and the Challenges of Online Learning (Matt Applegate) -- Using The Wire to Teach Cultural Competency in Higher Education (Tia Sherèe Gaynor) -- About the Contributors -- Index Summary "This collection of new essays offers practical examples for implementing The Wire in the college classroom as a cultural text to engage students in critical and creative inquiry. The essays provide a disciplinary framework for using the series in media studies, writing and narrative, ethics and rhetoric, and education and literacy"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Wire (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005026818 Wire (Television program) fast Subject Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher) PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. Humanities -- Study and teaching (Higher) Form Electronic book Author Dillon, Karen, 1980- Crummey, Naomi, 1973- ISBN 133618325X 9781336183254 9781476619675 1476619670

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