{"product_id":"treme-paperback","title":"Treme - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJaimey Fisher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTreme\u003c\/em\u003e, Jaimey Fisher analyzes how the HBO television series \u003cem\u003eTreme\u003c\/em\u003e (2010-13) treads new ground by engaging with historical events and their traumatic aftermaths, in particular with Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and subsequent flooding in New Orleans. Instead of building up to a devastating occurrence, David Simon's much anticipated follow-up to \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e (2002-08) unfolds with characters coping in the wake of catastrophe, in a mode that Fisher explores as \"afterness.\" \u003cem\u003eTreme\u003c\/em\u003e charts these changes while also memorializing the number of New Orleans cultures that were immediately endangered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Simon's and Eric Overmyer's \u003cem\u003eTreme \u003c\/em\u003eattempts something unprecedented for a multi-season series. Although the show follows, in some ways, in the celebrated footsteps of \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e-for example, in its elegiac tracking of the historical struggles of an American city-Fisher investigates how \u003cem\u003eTreme\u003c\/em\u003e varies from \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e's work with genre and what replaces it: \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e is a careful, even baroque variation on the police drama, while \u003cem\u003eTreme\u003c\/em\u003e dispenses with genre altogether. This poses considerable challenges for popular television, which Simon and Overmyer address in several ways, including by offering a carefully montaged map of New Orleans and foregrounding the distance witnessing of watershed events there. Another way in which \u003cem\u003eTreme\u003c\/em\u003e sets itself apart is its memorialization of the city's inestimable contributions to American music, especially to jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, rap, rock, and funk. \u003cem\u003eTreme\u003c\/em\u003e gives such music and its many makers unprecedented attention, both in terms of screen time for music and narrative exposition around musicians. A key element of the volume is its look at the show's themes of race, crime, and civil rights as well as the corporate versus community recovery and remaking of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTreme\u003c\/em\u003e's synthesizing m?lange of the arts in their specific geographical context, coupled with political and socio-economic analysis of the city, highlights the show's unique approach. Fans of the works of Simon and Overmyer, as well as television studies students and scholars, will enjoy this keen-eyed approach to a beloved show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaimey Fisher\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of German and cinema and digital media and director of the UC Davis Humanities Institute at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eChristian Petzold\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDisciplining Germany: Youth, Reeducation, and Reconstruction after the Second World War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(Wayne State University Press, 2007). He edited the volume \u003ci\u003eGeneric Histories of German Cinema: Genre and its Deviations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eand has also co-edited \u003ci\u003eThe Berlin School and its Global Contexts: A Transnational Art Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (Wayne State University Press, 2018), among other edited volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 11, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130532565127,"sku":"9780814341513","price":35.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/f3106a41c0dad1c90173dcab5de851b4.webp?v=1732611671","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/treme-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}