Overview
- Focusing on three key sites of authenticity: language, characterisation, and location, the monograph is the first full-length publication to examine the production of The Wire’s realism.
- Includes material from Jonathan Abrams’ All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire to offer new insights into the development and production of authenticity across the series.
- Examines the concept of ‘curated realism’, whereby the creative mind of showrunner David Simon can be seen to craft moments of ‘authenticity’ across The Wire’s five seasons.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines The Wire’s authenticity and its establishment of the series realism. Along with tracing creator David Simon’s onscreen critique of numerous failed American institutions, the book focuses on the connection between authenticity and realism in three distinct areas: language, character, and location. While it is shown that The Wire is indeed authentic, the study examines occasions where the language, characters, and even the location are ‘curated’. Yet, while we can witness these moments of curation, it is The Wire’s unflinching focus on authentic dialogue, authentic characterisation, and an authentic location that makes the series the most realistic, and arguably the best, television show of all time.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Ryan Twomey is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at Macquarie University where he teaches on intersections between literature and visual narrative. He has published various articles and book chapters on television series such as Fargo, Stranger Things, Mad Men, and True Detective.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Examining The Wire
Book Subtitle: Authenticity and Curated Realism
Authors: Ryan Twomey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45992-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45991-8Published: 01 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45994-9Published: 02 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45992-5Published: 31 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 139
Number of Illustrations: 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: American Cinema and TV