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      The Wire & the Mythology of the Western

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      Date
      2014-02-06
      Author
      Topola, Kelsey
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      The HBO television series The Wire ran for five seasons from 2002 to 2008. The series, which garnered much critical acclaim, depicts the lives and complex intersections of the police, drug gangs, political, and educational systems in Baltimore. This project seeks to examine the criteria and implications of re-imagining this television series as a work of narrative fiction belonging to the Western genre. The critical framework for these tasks is provided by John G. Cawelti’s text The Six Gun Mystique along with examples drawn from the films The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence and The Wild Bunch as well as the series itself.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      English
      Supervisor
      Bartley, William M.
      Committee
      Cooley, Ron; Hynes, Peter; Fairbairn, Allison
      Copyright Date
      December 2013
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-12-1362
      Subject
      The Wire
      American literature
      Westerns
      Film
      Television
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