1st Edition
Serial Fiction in the Western World History and Theory
List of Contributors
Section I
1. Seriality and the media. Outlines for a theory
Giovanni Ragone
2. At the sources of serial imaginaries: the ancient world and its legacies
Fabio Tarzia
3. From Arthur to Amadís: The Knightly Romance Series
Donatella Capaldi
4. Archeology of Modern Seriality: The Baroque Age
Giovanni Ragone
5. The Feuilleton.
Transitions in the cultural industry from the hero to the superman.
Sergio Brancato
6. Subject, Metropolis, and Other Spaces in 19th-Century Serial Genres
Alessio Ceccherelli and Emiliano Ilardi
7. The Serial Image. Photography and the Long Nineteenth-century Media
Giovanni Fiorentino
8. Serialisation and Transmedia Narratives: An Archaeology (1900-1939)
Mario Tirino
Section II
9. Post-Cinematic and Televisual Seriality: Narrative Strategies Between Mass Media and New Media.
Sergio Brancato
10. Seriality and time of consumption
Emiliano Laurenzi
11. A Reflection on American Comics Seriality: From the Sunday Supplements of the Late 1800s to Contemporary Graphic Novels
Stefano Cristante
12. Talent and Habituation: On Television Series and the Genesis of the Fan
Antonio Rafele and Tito Vagni
13. Manga and Anime: Japanese Seriality Conquering the World
Emiliano Ilardi
14. Classic Cinema and B-Movie
Alfonso Amendola and Pietro Ammaturo
15. Seriality in Video Games. Forms, Mechanisms and Strategies
Alessio Ceccherelli, Emiliano Chirchiano and Andrea Piano
16. Serial Structure in Contemporary TV Series
Daniela Cardini
17. Rethinking seriality in platform cultures: self-serialised identity narratives and participatory micro-serialisation
Giovanni Boccia Artieri
Section III
18. Media Smarginatura and Seriality: Blurring the Edges of Representation
Giovanni Boccia Artieri and Giovanni Fiorentino
19. Material, Immaterial, Phygital: The Technical Reproducibility of Fashion in Three Main Phases
Nello Barile
20. Seriality, from radio to podcasting
Tiziano Bonini
21. The gastronomic discourse and seriality forms
Gianfranco Marrone
22. Seriality in Advertising Communication
Vanni Codeluppi
23. Serial (theatrical) performances: observing liveness as format and media frame
Laura Gemini
24. Architecture as the Art of Repetition
Massimo Ilardi and Anna Rita Emili
25. Sometimes the Best Choice Is Not to Choose.
Viewer Indecision and Machine Decisions
Mario Pireddu
26. Visual Arts and Seriality: Phenomenology of the Anti-Environment
Donatella Capaldi and Giovanni Ragone
Index
Biography
Giovanni Ragone has been Full Professor of Media Studies at Sapienza University of Rome.
Antonio Rafele is currently serving as Professor of Media Studies at the University of Rome La Sapienza and as a Research Fellow at the University of Paris La Sorbonne.
