193 SERIES VOLUME I

Antonella Name, Mario Napoli, Tirino
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TV SERIAL NARRATIVES   unpublished
Gomorra-La serie (2014-ongoing) is a television series which approaches the standards of the so-called "quality television" (McCabe & Akass 2007), thanks to its cinematographic properties and because it is capable of forming cross-media fictional universes. This paper sets out to analyze this product and its potential of transmedia storytelling. Through the analysis of the related works on fictional seriality and post-seriality, the paper deals with the genesis of Gomorra-La serie, analyzing
more » ... ties with the book by Roberto Saviano and with the film by Matteo Garrone. The observation also extends to the audiences of this serial and its grassroot manipulations-fanfiction, fanvideo, tributes, parodies and citations-which circulate through social media as an expression of the partic-ipatory culture of digital media.
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