Description: By focusing on four main topics (Crime, Law Enforcement, America and Television), All in the Game examines The Wire's place within popular culture and its representation of the realities of inner city life, social institutions, and politics in contemporary American society. This is a brilliant collection of essays on a show that has taken the art of television drama to new heights.
Brief description: C. W. Marshall is Professor of Greek, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada. His publications include The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy (2006), Classics and Comics (2011) and No Laughing Matter (Bloomsbury, 2012).
Review Quotes: "Mentioned in 'In the Life of 'The Wire'' by Lorrie Moore" --New York Review of Books