First session 'Omar; Ethics, power and performativity'. Opmeer is the manager for the centre for research on socio-cultural change at the university of Manchester, she sat this one out only having seen the first 3 series.
For more than 2 days over 100 sociologists, crininologists and historians from Europe gathered to discuss the jealously guarded wisdom of The Wire.
David Simons work ran for 5 series and is, without any doubt the greatest piece of television ever made. This was no fan meeting but a seious academic meeting.
Kersten Mueller from the university of london goldsmiths, having presented her paper argueing that the streets of baltimore present the homosexual thief with a canvas on which his performance identity can be projected said season 4 broke her heart.
Works analising The Wire include;
Aman must have a code; the masculine ethic of snitching and non snitching-Thomas Ugelvik, university of oslo
The writers room as fiction making laboritory; The Wire as sociotechnical translation-John Farnsworth and Terry Austin, university of canterbury, new zealand
Non text based sociology; The Wire and its relationship to public sociology and progress- Rowland Atkinson, university of York
Ethics of nthe real; screening masculinity, violence and racial everyday in the wire- Ashwanti Sharma, university of east london
Music supervision and The Wire; ma case study in ambient naturalism-Jon Stewart, lancaster university
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