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On The Wire
By
Linda Williams
Linda Williams
Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Screening Sex and Porn Studies, both also published by Duke University Press; Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible." In 2013, Williams received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
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Duke University Press
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7644-6
Publication date:
2014
Book Chapter
Justice in The Wire: Tragedy, Realism, and Melodrama
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Published:August 2014
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