Dominique Gendrin is professor emeritus in communication studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.Catherine Dessinges is associate professor in the Department of Information and Communication Studies at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University.Shearon Roberts is assistant professor of mass communication at Xavier University of Louisiana.

This edited collection focused on the HBO series Treme offers 12 essays from American and French scholars. The authors tackle how the series represents race, gender, and culture as well as how it exists within HBO’s broader programming strategy. Several chapters explore how the actual Treme neighborhood in New Orleans has responded to the filming and has adjusted to the new neighborhood tourism that resulted from the series. Other chapters examine how the social and economic repercussions of Hurricane Katrina are intertwined in the content and the storytelling structure. Of course, a central theme of the series is the music of New Orleans and the role of Mardi Gras, and the three chapters that explore these topics directly are particularly noteworthy for their analysis and insights. Thankfully, the authors resist the auteurist hagiography of David Simon, which can often materialize in scholarship about his work. Instead, when taken as a whole this collection offers a thoughtful exploration of the series and is a valuable contribution to studies of HBO programming. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

• Forward - Dave Walker, TV writer, The Times-PicayunePreface - Dominique M. Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon RobertsChapter 1: Introduction - Dominique M. Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon RobertsTreme: Power and RepresentationChapter 2: Selling Tremé through the Home Box Office - Shearon RobertsChapter 3: Treme Tourism and Governing the Post-Katrina City - Helen Morgan ParmettChapter 4: New Tourist Sights, Slights, and Sleights-of-Hand in Treme - Lynnell ThomasChapter 5: Racialization of Urban Spaces in Treme - Dominique M. Gendrin Chapter 6: Treme and Its Engaged Audience - Catherine Dessinges Chapter 7: Social Change and Networks in Treme - Kristin ShamasTreme: Culture and RepresentationChapter 8: Treme: Reclaiming the Foundations of Music in Treme - Gregory AdamoChapter 9: Treme as an Experimental TV Series - Ariane HudeletChapter 10: Multiple Representations of Mardi Gras in Treme - Aurelie GodetChapter 11: Treme: Narrative Blackness in the Great American Cable Television Drama - Johnny JonesChapter 12: A Feminist Perspective on Treme - Wendy Hajjar

Dominique Gendrin is professor emeritus in communication studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.Catherine Dessinges is associate professor in the Department of Information and Communication Studies at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University.Shearon Roberts is assistant professor of mass communication at Xavier University of Louisiana.

This edited collection focused on the HBO series Treme offers 12 essays from American and French scholars. The authors tackle how the series represents race, gender, and culture as well as how it exists within HBO’s broader programming strategy. Several chapters explore how the actual Treme neighborhood in New Orleans has responded to the filming and has adjusted to the new neighborhood tourism that resulted from the series. Other chapters examine how the social and economic repercussions of Hurricane Katrina are intertwined in the content and the storytelling structure. Of course, a central theme of the series is the music of New Orleans and the role of Mardi Gras, and the three chapters that explore these topics directly are particularly noteworthy for their analysis and insights. Thankfully, the authors resist the auteurist hagiography of David Simon, which can often materialize in scholarship about his work. Instead, when taken as a whole this collection offers a thoughtful exploration of the series and is a valuable contribution to studies of HBO programming. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

• Forward - Dave Walker, TV writer, The Times-PicayunePreface - Dominique M. Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon RobertsChapter 1: Introduction - Dominique M. Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon RobertsTreme: Power and RepresentationChapter 2: Selling Tremé through the Home Box Office - Shearon RobertsChapter 3: Treme Tourism and Governing the Post-Katrina City - Helen Morgan ParmettChapter 4: New Tourist Sights, Slights, and Sleights-of-Hand in Treme - Lynnell ThomasChapter 5: Racialization of Urban Spaces in Treme - Dominique M. Gendrin Chapter 6: Treme and Its Engaged Audience - Catherine Dessinges Chapter 7: Social Change and Networks in Treme - Kristin ShamasTreme: Culture and RepresentationChapter 8: Treme: Reclaiming the Foundations of Music in Treme - Gregory AdamoChapter 9: Treme as an Experimental TV Series - Ariane HudeletChapter 10: Multiple Representations of Mardi Gras in Treme - Aurelie GodetChapter 11: Treme: Narrative Blackness in the Great American Cable Television Drama - Johnny JonesChapter 12: A Feminist Perspective on Treme - Wendy Hajjar

Dominique Gendrin is professor emeritus in communication studies at Xavier University of Louisiana.Catherine Dessinges is associate professor in the Department of Information and Communication Studies at Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University.Shearon Roberts is assistant professor of mass communication at Xavier University of Louisiana.

This edited collection focused on the HBO series Treme offers 12 essays from American and French scholars. The authors tackle how the series represents race, gender, and culture as well as how it exists within HBO’s broader programming strategy. Several chapters explore how the actual Treme neighborhood in New Orleans has responded to the filming and has adjusted to the new neighborhood tourism that resulted from the series. Other chapters examine how the social and economic repercussions of Hurricane Katrina are intertwined in the content and the storytelling structure. Of course, a central theme of the series is the music of New Orleans and the role of Mardi Gras, and the three chapters that explore these topics directly are particularly noteworthy for their analysis and insights. Thankfully, the authors resist the auteurist hagiography of David Simon, which can often materialize in scholarship about his work. Instead, when taken as a whole this collection offers a thoughtful exploration of the series and is a valuable contribution to studies of HBO programming. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

• Forward - Dave Walker, TV writer, The Times-PicayunePreface - Dominique M. Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon RobertsChapter 1: Introduction - Dominique M. Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon RobertsTreme: Power and RepresentationChapter 2: Selling Tremé through the Home Box Office - Shearon RobertsChapter 3: Treme Tourism and Governing the Post-Katrina City - Helen Morgan ParmettChapter 4: New Tourist Sights, Slights, and Sleights-of-Hand in Treme - Lynnell ThomasChapter 5: Racialization of Urban Spaces in Treme - Dominique M. Gendrin Chapter 6: Treme and Its Engaged Audience - Catherine Dessinges Chapter 7: Social Change and Networks in Treme - Kristin ShamasTreme: Culture and RepresentationChapter 8: Treme: Reclaiming the Foundations of Music in Treme - Gregory AdamoChapter 9: Treme as an Experimental TV Series - Ariane HudeletChapter 10: Multiple Representations of Mardi Gras in Treme - Aurelie GodetChapter 11: Treme: Narrative Blackness in the Great American Cable Television Drama - Johnny JonesChapter 12: A Feminist Perspective on Treme - Wendy Hajjar