Papers are invited for a collection of essays on Shawn Ryan's award-winning and controversial TV series The Shield. We are seeking critically sophisticated but accessible essays, written from a variety of perspectives, which will stimulate serious debate around this remarkable show.
Contributions may seek to address (but are certainly not limited to) the following topics:
--Racial identity and racial conflict
--Testimony and confession
--Masculinities
--Homosociality and homosexuality
--Familial and symbolic paternities
--Collective identity (gangs, teams, mobs etc) and collective violence
--Bodily inscriptions of violence (wounds, brandings, tattoos etc)