Invisible City
The Wire: The cycles of urban life in television's most novelistic show
by Dana Polan
posted Jul 28, 2008
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Clarke Peters, Sonja Sohn, Dominic West, and Wendell Pierce in The Wire
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FURTHER READING
Nick Hornby's interview with David Simon (The Believer)"TV Club" dialogue on The Wire's final season (Slate)
Dan Kois, "Everything You Were Afraid to Ask About The Wire" (Salon)
THE AUTHOR
Dana Polan is a professor of Cinema Studies in the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He is the author of six books on film and has two books, The Sopranos and The French Chef, forthcoming in Spin-Offs, a new Duke University Press series on groundbreaking television shows.
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