NYU Center for the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Wire

Presented by the NYU Center for the Humanities

Increasingly, a literary imagination structures contemporary quality television. In HBO’s series, The Wire, we witness the return of chess, the early modern aristocratic game of war. The Wire relates the codes of the drug war to the rules of this stylized war game. Elisabeth Bronfen brings The Wireinto conversation with another set of dramatic productions on war: Shakespeare’s history plays. This event is cosponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.

Speaker:
Elisabeth Bronfen, Professor of English and American Studies, University of Zürich Global Distinguished Professor, German Department, New York University

Respondent:
John Archer, Professor Department of English, New York University

Moderator:
Arvind Rajagopal, Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University

About Elisabeth Bronfen:
Elisabeth Bronfen is professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zürich, and, since 2007 Global Distinguished Professor in the German Department at NYU. She specializes in the interface between literary and visual culture, historical transformations through various media, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. Her publications includeHome in Hollywood. The Imaginary Geography of Cinema (Columbia U. P.), Specters of War. Hollywood’s Engagement with Military Conflict (Rutgers U.P.) and forthcoming Mad Men, Death and the American Dream (Chicago U.P./Diaphanes).

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