Do You Know what It Means to Miss New Orleans? City, Fiction and Polyphony in Treme, HBO Television Series
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socio-fiction, actor-network theory, poliphony, realism, TremeAbstract
The dividing lines between social sciences, arts and popular culture are not as clear as it is commonly believed. Actually, some theoretical approaches reveal a constant overlapping of transgressions and influences between these fields of knowledge. Treme is a television production that recreates in great detail the complex social flows and tensions of the modern American city through its particular style and narrative structure. Drawing on Bakhtin and Latour’s work, this article focuses on the first episode of the series and its narrative, in order to illustrate the mechanisms that allow this work of fiction to provide a certain sociological view of the world.
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Coutard, Olivier. 1999. The Governance of Large Technical Systems. Londres; Nueva York: Routledge.
Crutcher, Michael E. 2010. Treme: Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
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Dessinges, Catherine, Dominique Gendrin y Wendy Hajjar. 2012. “Fiction and Reality in HBO’s Treme: A Narrative Alchemy at the Service of Political Truth”. TV/Series 1: 163-186.
Dreier, Peter y John Atlas. 2009. “The Wire: Bush-Era Fable about America’s Urban Poor?”. City & Community 8 (3): 329-340.
Farías, Ignacio. 2011. “Ensamblajes urbanos: la TAR y el examen de la ciudad”. Athenea Digital 11 (1): 15-40.
Consultado en http://psicologiasocial.uab.es/athenea/index.php/atheneaDigital/article/view/826
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George, Courtney. 2012. “Keeping it ‘Reals’: Narratives of New Orleans Jazz History as Represented in HBO’s Treme”. Television & New Media 13 (3): 225-234.
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Gray, Herman. 2012. “Recovered, Reinvented, Reimagined Treme, Television Studies and Writing New Orleans”. Television & New Media 13 (3): 213-224.
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Guggenheim, Michael. 2009. “Building Memory: Architecture, Networks and Users”. Memory Studies 2 (1): 39-53.
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http://www.believermag.com/issues/200708/?read=interview_simon
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Jacobs, Jane M. 2006. “A Geography of Big Things”. Cultural Geographies 13 (1): 1-27.
Jameson, Frederic. 2010. “Realism and Utopia in The Wire”. Criticism 52 (3-4): 359-372.
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Latour, Bruno. 1998. “La tecnología es la sociedad hecha para que dure”. En Ensayos sobre ciencia, tecnología y sociedad, editado por Miquel Doménech y Francisco Tirado, 109-142. Barcelona: Gedisa.
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___. 2004. After Method: Mess in Social Science Research. Londres: Routledge.
Lee, Spike. 2006. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. HBO, 255 minutos, dos episodios.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1987. Antropología estructural. Barcelona: Paidós.
Marshall, C. W. y Tiffany Potter. 2009. “‘I Am the American Dream’: Modern Urban Tragedy and the Borders of Fiction”. En The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television, editado por T. Potter y C. W. Marshall, 1-14. Londres: Continuum.
Mauss, Marcel. 1979. “Ensayo sobre los dones, motivo y forma del cambio en las sociedades primitivas”. En Sociología y antropología, 165-268. Madrid: Tecnos.
Mitchell, Reid. 2007. “Carnival and Katrina”. Journal of American History 94: 789-794.
Olson, Scott R. 1987. “Meta-television: Popular Postmodernism”. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 4: 284-300.
Parker, Simon. 2010. “Introduction: Welcome to the Urban Desert of the Real”. City 14 (5): 491-496.
Penfold-Mounce, Ruth, David Beer y Roger Burrows. 2011. “The Wire as Social Science-Fiction?”. Sociology 45 (1): 152-167.
Raeburn, Bruce B. 2007. “‘They’re Tryin’ to Wash Us Away’: New Orleans Musicians Surviving Katrina”. Journal of American History 94: 812-819.
Rathke, Wade. 2012. “Treme for Tourists: The Music of the City without the Power”. Television & New Media 13 (3): 261-267.
Scott, Rebecca J. 2007. “The Atlantic World and the Road to Plessy v. Ferguson”. Journal of American History 94: 726-733.
Slater, Don y Tomas Ariztia. 2009. “Assembling Asturias: Scaling Devices and Cultural Leverage”. En Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies, editado por Ignacio Farías y Thomas Bender, 91-108. Londres: Routledge.
Summ erton, Jane. 1994. Changing Large Technical Systems. Oxford: Westview Press.
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Thomas, Lynnell L. 2012. “‘People Want to See What Happened’: Treme, Televisual Tourism, and the Racial Remapping of Post-Katrina New Orleans”. Television & New Media 13 (3): 213-224.
Toscano, Alberto y Jeff Kinkle. 2009. “Baltimore as World and Representation: Cognitive Mapping and Capitalism in The Wire”. Dossier Journal. Consultado el 28 de agosto de 2012. http://dossierjournal.com/read/theory/baltimore-as-world-and-representation-cognitivemapping-and-capitalism-in-the-wire/
White, Harrison. 2008. Identity & Control. How Do Social Formations Emerge. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Williams, Linda. 2011. “Ethnographic Imaginary: The Genesis and Genius of The Wire”. Critical Inquiry 38 (1): 208-219.
Woods, Clyde. 2005. “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?: Katrina, Trap Economics, and the Rebirth of the Blues”. American Quarterly 57 (4): 1005-1018.
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Lozano, M. (2013). Do You Know what It Means to Miss New Orleans? City, Fiction and Polyphony in Treme, HBO Television Series. Revista Colombiana De Antropología, 49(2), 63–89. Retrieved from https://revistas.icanh.gov.co/index.php/rca/article/view/276
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