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This article analyzes the alleged Dickensian echo of the highly-acclaimed TV series The Wire (2002-2008). The Wire‘s well-known literary ambitions have frequently been endorsed by comparison of the series to literary genres, including the Greek tragedy (McMillan, 2009:
Jun 30, 2019 · This article analyzes the alleged Dickensian echo of the highly-acclaimed HBO TV series The Wire. Charles Dickens is probably the literary author to whom the series has most frequently been...
than placing Dickens in a simple, static category – realist or non-realist – the series is attuned to the ways in which Dickens’s realism balances the mundane, unromantic aspects of life with the absurdities we so often overlook.
This article analyzes the alleged Dickensian echo of the highly-acclaimed HBO TV series The Wire. Charles Dickens is probably the literary author to whom the series has most frequently been likened.
- Pablo Ruano San Segundo
- 2019
Jun 1, 2020 · In one little phrase, ‘the Dickensian aspect’, The Wire manages to capture precisely what is wrong with Whiting’s approach to journalism: he is more interested in telling sentimental stories than exploring an issue in depth and documenting as many perspectives as possible.
Jun 30, 2019 · The analysis is intended to throw new light on the Dickensian ambience of The Wire, which seems to be different than previous critical appreciations of the series have suggested. This article analyzes the alleged Dickensian echo of the highly-acclaimed HBO TV series The Wire.
Central to this analysis are the material aspects of the history of the United States that have shaped the circumstances shown in The Wire and that determine the social production of the lives and deaths of the characters in the show.
