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Great time for a new thread on The Wire. I am actually taking a class right now all about season four. We've actually read a lot of academic articles specifically about The Wire. I was surprised how much attention it got. If people want, I can post some links to these articles. Some of them are available for free online, but others are only available through JSTOR or Academic Search Complete. But if you have access to university databases, you can get them there.
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chesh posted:This may be dumb, but I am going to Baltimore for a week on Saturday. I've seen the building they use for the exterior of Homicide like a dozen times. Is there any place the thread would like me to go and photograph? If you follow this link: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104990431116129636455.00044316f87b70af87372 It will take you to a Google map page with a bunch of the locations used on The Wire. For the first season, I think they actually tried to shoot the entire thing on the west side. But after figuring out how hard that could be, they decided they could use other parts of the city as stand ins for the west side. I know one scene in a later season (4, but it might be 5) that takes place in a shady looking alley actually was shot in a very upscale alley in the nice part of Baltimore. Edit: Here is another link to a blog that has some more info on locations: http://welcometobaltimorehon.com/the-wire-a-streetview-tour Kill Dozed fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Dec 20, 2012 |
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Dec 20, 2012 17:14
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If you go to the other link I posted in the edit, I think the Greek's coffee place is on there.
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Dec 20, 2012 17:23
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I promised this a few pages/days ago, but I finally got a chance to get this list together. Here are some academic articles all about the Wire. I’ve read all of these, so if anyone wants to chat about them, I would love that. There are more articles (a lot more, actually), but I only have access to them through my school’s databases. If there is enough interest, I could maybe set up a dropbox to put pdfs in. At any rate, here are some links: The first thing I wanted to post was a comprehensive list on academic sources on the Wire: http://www.york.ac.uk/media/sociology/curb/publications/The%20Wire%20resource%20list.pdf Here are some specific links: “Thin Line ‘tween heaven and here” (Bubbles): Real and Imagined Space in The Wire,” by Linda Speidel http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2009/05/29/thin-line-tween-heaven-and-here-bubbles-real-and-imagined-space-in-the-wire/ “The Wire and the world: narrative and metanarrative” by Helena Sheehan and Sheamus Sweeney http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc51.2009/Wire/index.html “B5—it got all the dinks”: Schools and Education on ‘The Wire’” by Lawrence Blum http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2011/04/29/b5-it-got-all-the-dinks-schools-and-education-on-the-wire/ “These Are Not Your Children”: The Wire’s eighth graders and their fate at Edward Tillman Middle School,” by Georgia Christgau http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2009/05/29/snitches-pups-and-astronauts-the-wire-takes-on-the-bureaucracy-of-public-junior-high-school
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