as seen from France

Marie-Hélène Bacqué and Amélie Flamand

City, 2016, vol. 20, issue 6, 845-862

Abstract: This paper analyses the reception of the American TV series The Wire in the French context as part of a long, transatlantic conversation rooted in two histories and two social and political ‘models’. It focuses on educated audiences as well as on youth living in poor neighbourhoods; it also attempts to gauge the audiovisual references used by French viewers of the series. It shows how the series fuels a socially stratified sociological imaginary but also directly tackles ethno-racial issues that are still largely unaddressed in French debates.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2016.1241528

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