Casting The Wire: Complicating Notions of Performance, Authenticity, and ‘Otherness’
by Lisa W. Kelly • 29 May 09Journal: Issues | The Wire Files [4]
In an effort to produce original programming that viewers are willing to pay for, the pay-cable channel HBO has successfully defined its output in opposition to network television. This approach is perhaps most apparent in The Wire (2002-2008), a drama…
