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The Wire: Truth Be Told

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The Wire and Philosophy: This America, Man (Popular Culture and Philosophy)

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The Wire and America’s Dark Corners: Critical Essays

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The Wire: Race, Class, and Genre

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The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television

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This Will Be on the Midterm. You Feel Me?

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The HBO Effect

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It’s Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

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The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever

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Inside the Rise of HBO: A Personal History of the Company That Transformed Television

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The Wire

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Rewatching ‘The Wire’: Classic Crime Drama Seems Written For Today

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Stealing Life

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Life on the Set of The Wire

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Why we’re teaching ‘The Wire’ at Harvard

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What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire

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“Way Down in the Hole”: Systematic Urban Inequality and The Wire

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Ethnographic Imaginary: The Genesis and Genius of The Wire

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Sociology and The Wire

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The Wire: arguably the greatest television programme ever made

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How to Make a Critically Acclaimed TV Show About Masculinity

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HBO and the Future of Pay-TV: The Winning Streak

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Viewing America: Twenty-First-Century Television Drama

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