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From soft eyes to street lives: The Wire and jargons of authenticity

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In terms of its ability to hold the attention of the viewer and to require an engagement with hundreds of characters and numerous complex institutions and organisations in over 60 hours of real‐time television, David Simon and Ed Burns’ television drama, The Wire , offers the prospect of a new 'socio‐spatial imagination’. Drawing on the work of C. Wright Mills and Theodore Adorno I argue that 'fictional’ social critique in the form of the televisual novel can be a more effective medium than mainstream social science for revealing the spaces and people that capitalism has left behind.

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  • Simon Parker, 2010. "From soft eyes to street lives: The Wire and jargons of authenticity," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(5), pages 545-557, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:14:y:2010:i:5:p:545-557
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2010.512443
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    1. Yoann Bazin & Margot Leclair, 2019. "« I see dead people… ». Meet the organizational ghosts that haunt businesses [« I see dead people... » À la rencontre des fantômes organisationnels qui hantent les entreprises]," Post-Print hal-02429268, HAL.

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