New television as neo-naturalism: The Wire and The Shield

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dc.check.date2022-10-08
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dc.contributor.authorGibbs, Alan
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-06T13:50:50Z
dc.date.available2021-12-06T13:50:50Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-08
dc.date.updated2021-12-01T16:37:46Z
dc.description.abstractThis article examines The Wire (HBO, 2002–8) and The Shield (FX, 2002–8) and the extent to which they employ particular attributes of new television in order to engage with notions of determined behaviour familiar from literary naturalism (and, through them, important contemporary political ideologies). The Wire and The Shield are part of a growing body of neo-naturalist works in contemporary American culture. Like Dexter and Breaking Bad, they portray the actions of their protagonists as heavily determined by outside forces. But while The Shield’s deterministic naturalism tends to lend tacit support for more authoritarian social control, The Wire’s use of similar architecture is a means to advocate for urgent institutional reform.en
dc.description.abstractCet article examine les séries télévisées The Wire (HBO, 2002-2008) et The Shield (FX, 2002-2008) et la manière dont elles utilisent des caractéristiques particulières de la nouvelle télévision pour entamer un dialogue avec des notions de comportement déterminé, lesquelles sont connues du naturalisme littéraire (et, par leur entremise, des idéologies politiques contemporaines importantes). The Wire et The Shield font partie du corpus croissant d’œuvres néonaturalistes dans la culture américaine contemporaine. Tout comme Dexter et Breaking Bad, elles montrent les actions de leurs protagonistes comme étant lourdement déterminées par des forces externes. Mais, tandis que le naturalisme déterministe de The Shield a tendance à soutenir tacitement un plus grand contrôle social autoritaire, l’utilisation d’une architecture similaire dans The Wire sert à défendre une réforme institutionnelle urgente.fr
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dc.identifier.citationGibbs, A. (2021) 'New Television as Neo-Naturalism: The Wire and The Shield', The Canadian Review of American Studies, 51 (3), pp. 247-260. doi: 10.3138/cras-2020-009en
dc.identifier.doi10.3138/cras-2020-009en
dc.identifier.eissn1710-114X
dc.identifier.endpage260en
dc.identifier.issn0007-7720
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleThe Canadian Review of American Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage247en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12319
dc.identifier.volume51en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Toronto Pressen
dc.relation.urihttps://utpjournals.press/doi/10.3138/cras-2020-009
dc.rights© Canadian Review of American Studies 2021en
dc.subjectNew televisionen
dc.subjectThe Wireen
dc.subjectThe Shielden
dc.subjectNaturalismen
dc.subjectTragedyen
dc.subjectMartin Shusteren
dc.subjectNouvelle télévisionfr
dc.subjectNaturalismefr
dc.subjectTragédiefr
dc.titleNew television as neo-naturalism: The Wire and The Shielden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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