The Wire

INDEX

INDEx 117 ABC, 2–3, 11, 15, 28, 85 Abrams, J. J., 5 Adam 12, 80 African Americans: casting of, 16, 19, 108; drug trade and, 14, 32, 42, 80; economic marginalization of, 37–40, 42, 45–46, 58; representations of, 6, 16–17, 34, 39, 41–42, 58, 80. See also segregation agency, 6, 53, 84–90, 93 Agnew, Spiro, 40 “All Prologue,” 1, 36, 89, 99 Alvarez, Rafael, 2, 11, 87, 102, 108 AMC (network), 5 Anderson, Angela, 44, 88 Andrews, Donnie, 87 Atlas, John, 84 audience, 1, 4–7, 21, 50–55, 67, 83, 84–90, 98; class and, 11, 84–85, 103; education of, 19, 21, 53–54, 100–102; genre and, 1, 7, 10–11; identification with characters, 50, 86, 88; loyalty, 4–5, 83, 100; pleasure and, 20–21, 50, 75; positioning of, 12, 53–54 Babylon 5, 28 “Backwash,” 35, 36 “Bad Dreams,” 20, 31 Baker, Tyrell, 70 Ball, Alan, 5 Baltimore, 6, 12, 37–40, 66–67, 83, 101 Balzac, Honoré de, 6 Barksdale, Avon, 3, 17, 23, 32, 46–53, 54–56, 59, 61, 64, 70, 87, 108 Barksdale, D’Angelo, 22–27, 29, 47, 69–70, 94, 99 Barksdale organization, 2–3, 22–23, 31, 59, 70–71, 89 Beliveau, Ralph, 81 Bell, Stringer, 24, 46, 48–53, 54–59, 61, 69, 108 The Bill, 28 Ben-Victor, Paul, 32 Bolf-Beliveau, Laura, 81 Bond, Rupert, 40 118 Index Bonnycastle, Kevin, 13 Boomtown, 3 Boyd, Fran, 87 “Boys of Summer,” 32 Brandon, 47 Brianna, 47, 96 Brice, De’Londa, 81, 96 Brice, Namond, 74, 87, 96 Brice, Wee-Bey, 26, 29, 81 Broadus, Bodie, 22–27, 29, 63, 67–74, 76–78, 86, 108 Broom, Maria, 96 Bubbles, 23, 68, 86, 99, 99–100 Burkeman, Oliver, 7 Burley, Justin, 64 Burns, Ed, 42–43, 85–86, 86, 87, 100, 107–8; knowledge of Baltimore, 1, 5, 15, 21 Burre, Brandy, 96 Burrell, Ervin, 39 Bush, George, 75 “The Buys,” 22–29, 69, 95 Byers, Michele, 12 Campbell, Richard, 107 Capital Gains, 20 capitalism, 5, 39, 48, 50, 73, 77, 105; cities and, 67–68, 73; critique of, 6–7, 15, 53, 58–61, 71, 105–6; early, 46–47, 48, 71; failure of, 7; global, 37; late, 58–59, 61, 66–67, 71 Carcetti, Jen, 97 Carcetti, Tommy, 39, 53–54, 65, 66, 97, 108 Carver, Ellis, 79–82, 96 casting, 16, 86, 108; multiracial, 16, 19, 36, 39 Cathey, Reg E., 108 CBS, 14 Chaddha, Anmol, 84 Chaney, Tray, 22 change, 64, 102–3; barriers to, 40, 64, 88; individual, 16, 81–82, 87, 102–3; social, 36, 83–84, 87, 90, 98, 102–4; systemic, 34, 58, 64, 66, 82, 88, 98–99, 102–4 Chappelle, Joe, 49 characterization, 16, 20, 22, 28, 79, 86; of criminals, 2–3, 4, 15–16, 19, 26–27, 73, 89, 93; social critique and, 86, 94, 28; of women, 93–97, 109 Chase, David, 5 Cheese. See Wagstaff, Calvin Cheryl, 94–95 chess, 22, 24–27 Chew, Robert F , 38, 86 children. See youth cinematography, 12–13, 21–23, 36, 43, 52–53, 55, 72–73, 76, 79– 80; digital, 13; montage, 13, 21; power and, 50–51, 79; realism and, 21, 20; violence and, 13, 78, 91–92 civil rights movement, 55 Clandfield, Peter, 108 “Clarifications,” 91, 99 class, 11, 13; audience and, 11, 84–85; race and, 36–38; urban distribution of, 22, 37 “Cleaning Up,” 17, 69 The Closer, 109 closure. See narrative, closure of Colvin, Howard, 38, 42–43, 52, 53–54, 64, 75, 80, 81, 90, 96 Cook, Brian, 1 Cooper, Luray, 33–34 Cops, 86–87 Corbett, Nathan, 81 The Corner, 21 The Corporation, 59 119 Index 119 Covington, Jeanette, 42, 58 Coxson, Nat, 33–34 Crawford, Jermaine, 74, 102, 106 Creeber, Glen, 28 crime: causes of, 11, 17, 42, 64; systemic analysis of, 28, 64–68, 82, 105 Criminal Minds, 14 criminality, 6, 84, 86–87, 106; racialization of, 14, 16, 32, 41–42, 45–46, 80 criminals: characterization of, 2–4, 15–16, 19, 26–27, 56, 73, 89, 93 CSI, 12–13 D’Agostina, Theresa, 95–96 Daniels, Cedric, 17, 29, 75–76, 95, 96 Daniels, Marla, 95, 96–97 Darnall, Michael Kevin, 47 Davis, Clay, 39–40, 50 Davis, Mike, 46 “Dead Soldiers,” 14 death, 13, 56, 78, 90–91 The Deacon, 43, 87 Dellums, Eric, 19 DeLuca, Dan...