Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Of Low and No Concepts: David Simon and Eric Overmyer's Art Television; 2. Form and Content: Networked Narrative, Montage Maps, and Television Witnessing; 3. New Orleans Music and Food: Affect and the Political Economy of Cultural Production; 4. Networked Narrative and New Orleans's Criminal Justice System; 5. The Concrete Abstractions of the Televisual City: Albert, Nelson, and Treme's Disaster Capitalism
Conclusion: The Counter-publics of Albert's Mardi Gras Indians, Antoine's Musical Meanderings, and Simon/Overmyer's TremeReferences; Index
Summary
Explores the urban context of post-Katrina New Orleans with which the TV show engages
