Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Screening Sex and Porn Studies, both also published by Duke University Press; Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible." In 2013, Williams received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
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Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I. World Enough and Time: The Genesis and Genius of The Wire
1. Ethnographic Imagination: From Journalism to Television Serial 11
2. Serial Television's World and Time: The Importance of the "Part" 37
Part II. Justice in The Wire: Tragedy, Realism, and Melodrama
3. "Classical" Tragedy, or . . . 79
4. Realistic, Modern Serial Melodrama 107
Part III. Surveillance, Schoolin', and Race
5. Hard Eyes / Soft Eyes: Surveillance and Schoolin' 139
6. Feeling Race: The Wire and the American Melodrama of Black and White 173
Conclusion: Home Sweet Baltimore 211
Notes 223
Bibliography 247
Index 255

Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Screening Sex and Porn Studies, both also published by Duke University Press; Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson; Viewing Positions: Ways of Seeing Film; and Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible." In 2013, Williams received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.