Books by Stanley Corkin

The first comprehensive, season-by-season analysis of the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire, this book explicates the complex narrative arc of the entire series and its sweeping vision of institutional failure in the postindustrial United States.

This work offers an interdisciplinary view of American culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author examines the ways in which the works of writers and filmmakers from 1885 to 1925 shaped and were shaped by the business, politics and social life of the period.

Examines many of the significant westerns released between 1946 and 1962, analyzing how they responded to and influenced the cultural climate of the country. This work discusses a dozen films in detail, connecting them to each other and to numerous others. It considers how these cultural productions embellished the myth of the American frontier.