Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I World Enough and Time THE GENESIS AND GENIUS OF THE WIRE
6. 1 Ethnographic Imagination FROM JOURNALISM TO TELEVISION SERIAL 11
7. 2 Serial Television’s World and Time THE IMPORTANCE OF THE “PART” 37
8. PART II Justice in The Wire TRAGEDY, REALISM, AND MELODRAMA
9. 3 “Classical” Tragedy, or . . . 79
10. 4 Realistic, Modern Serial Melodrama 107
11. PART III Surveillance, Schoolin’, and Race
12. 5 Hard Eyes / Soft Eyes SURVEILLANCE AND SCHOOLIN’ 139
13. 6 Feeling Race THE WIRE AND THE AMERICAN MELODRAMA OF BLACK AND WHITE 173
14. Conclusion HOME SWEET BALTIMORE 211
15. Notes 223
16. Bibliography 247
17. Index 255