sociology reading log easy 5

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******NO PLAGIARISM WILL BE TOLERATED. PROPER SPELLING AND GRAMMAR IS REQUIRED. QUALITY WORK. IF NOT FOLLOWED WILL RESULT IN WITHDRAWAL********

*4 Total Readings*

Requirement: 2 page double spaced. Grading Rubric Attached. ASA format

Screening: The Wire (HBO, 2002-2008), Pilot and edited Pilot with audio commentary by creator David Simon

Readings:
1.) Mittell, Jason. 2006. “Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television.” The Velvet Light Trap 58 (Fall): 29-40.

2.) Sconce, Jeffrey. 2004. “What If?: Charting Television’s New Textual Boundaries.” Pp. 93-112 in Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition, edited by Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson. Durham, NC. Duke University Press.

3.) Mittell, Jason. 2011. “All in the Game: The Wire, Serial Storytelling andProcedural Logic.” Electronic Book Review, March 8, www.electronic bookreview.com

4.) Chaddha, Anmol and William Julius Wilson. 2011. “‘Way Down in the Hole’: Systemic Urban Inequality and The Wire.” Critical Inquiry38(Autumn): 164-188.

Prompt:

Discuss how The Wire’s overarching “season-as-chapter” narrativestructure, in combination with its use of the art of serialized storytelling, enabled the creation of a complex sociological storyworld about the effect of organizational bureaucracy on individual lives.