... of Compton. The rather unimaginatively named G's position calls primarily for the supervision of his employees Caine and O'Dog in activities such as gun-running, drug dealing, and car theft. It is telling, however, that in the social sphere-house parties, cookouts, watching television...

... sphere. This use of the family to contain and structure the consequences of crime was strikingly demonstrated in a segment on the murder of two police officers in the Compton neighborhood of L.A. An interview with five uniformed colleagues of the dead officers began with John Walsh de...

... “to the TV equivalent of a ‘good readO This notion of Upstairs, Downstairs as a reading, or a literary, experience is taken up by other television critics as early as 1974. Time quoted Jean Marsh likening the series to the novels of Henry Green and Ivy Compton Burnett; it compared the show...

...” (Videogames, 77). 22. Kline, Dyer-Witheford, and de Peuter, Digital Play, 251. 23. Nic Kelman, “Yes, but Is It a Game?” in Gamers: Writers, Artists, and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels, ed. Shanna Compton (Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull, 2004), 231. 24. Silent Hill 4: The Room...

... visas out of East St. Louis or Compton, the basketball, baseball, and football scholarships have assumed a rare economic and political significance: these "academic" awards are not only a way out of the black ghetto, but also a potential passport to wealth. Evacuated of Patterson's anemic...