I have a bone to pick:
Why So Many Colleges Are Teaching The Wire
This isn’t the first time I have blogged about college professors lecturing about the show but this is the highest profile piece I have read about it. I am lukewarm about using the show as an example of social commentary mostly because I think the show was created first to entertain and then second to educate/critique. Either way, it is one of my all time favorite shows and I love that more and more people are exposed to it. If nothing else, it truly is an example of amazing storytelling.
I learned about The Wire in an English class. And in fact, that professor is currently working on a project about Bleak House and The Wire: “I am currently at work on an article on HBO’s tv series The Wire. Called ‘Narrative Networks,’ this essay brings together Dickens’s Bleak House with The Wire to make some claims about network theory and narrative theory. It ends with some methodological arguments about historicism and formalism.”
Yes, the show is entertaining, and it is a affecting display of social problems, but there’s much more to be gained from it than that.
(article via Eric Friedman)
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