L'immaginario religioso nelle serie tv. Generi e generazioni

Abstract

In television series of recent years, the centrality of the religious theme has emerged with particular emphasis (beyond the all-Italian tradition of miniseries focused on the biography of religious personalities, saints and popes). This explosion of the use of the religious theme can be attributed to the search for a more relevant thematic and structural complexity asd well as the characters' thickness. Both issues are an attempt to involve new potential audiences. The creation of this sub-genre is, not surprisingly, linked to a constant process of hybridization of genres and narrative modes which makes it transversal with respect to other possible categorizations of television seriality.

Keywords

• tv series
• narrative genres
• thematic criticism
• narratology
• audiovisual semiotics