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M. Henry
Introduction aux cours du semestre basé sur la série "The Wire"....

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21st Century CM1 Dysfunctional urban America un HBO's television series The wire 1. Introduction 2. Season 1 3. Season 2 4. Season 3 5. Season 4 6. Season 5 1. Prologue HBO Ident Scene of the crime Opening titles 2. It's not TV Cable TV HBO : « not TV » ? The Creators 3. Course info Why study the Wire How to watch How to contribute Notes and warnings Prologue : Like the opening of all great works of art, the first sceneof The Wire is Its DNA, it's providing the encoded information for the entire body of work. HBO ident : key words With a C Major Chords just like a Macintosh Marketing strategy with the C Major chords, sang by the « Character promos » in a short clip First scene of The Wire : Key words : Blood, Siren, Child, murder, Police, Dog scream, casual This show is opening with a low-angle shot with a focus on the blood in the pavement. The colours are in a Yellowish Brown ambiance, pretty dark. The scene and the street are connected, there is a triangle with Police, gangters and crimes. It's a synecdoque, (a word which « désigne » the whole) Here in west Baltimore, violence is normal, we have the atmopshere of the normality of violence. The add of Coca-Cola is a symbol of Capitalism. A focus change bewteen the dead kid of the foreground to the two discussing's men on the background « Rack Focus » .

The Law side Mmm you touch my tralala The hand is the synecdoque, we can see the double Point of vue, the Police one and the gangsters....