Tv di culto. La serialità televisiva americana e il suo fandom

[Autom. eng. transl.] Television has become a cult, it has conquered its 'aura', it has become a terminal for passionate and intense forms of enjoyment, colored by affectively warm tones, particularly widespread among young spectators. Around quality television products, such as the American series of recent generations (from Twin Peaks and X-files to Buffy), small or large communities of media fans are coagulating, archiving their cult TV series, seeing and reviewing the episodes , they organize semi-public screenings and listening groups, give life to conventions, produce fanzines and materials of all kinds and - above all - use the Internet and the web as tools to express their passion, to 'make a group' and interact, to defend the series loved by the risks of premature cancellation, to make its voice heard by spectators involved, active and competent. This volume offers an unusual journey into the universe of contemporary television culture and media fandom conducted with the guidance of different approaches (textual analysis, ethnography of consumption, sociology of culture, cultural studies, psychology of reception), in a perspective multi-disciplinary. The goal is to reconstruct the ways in which a media cult is generated, which includes specific constructive and narrative forms, distribution, marketing and promotion mechanisms planned by the multimedia audiovisual industry to intercept and 'incorporate' fandom cultures; but, on the other hand, it could not be generated without the same media fans, ready to activate forms of creativity aimed at making the industrially produced cultural objects their own, to bend them to their own personal and group needs, to transform them into a land of construction. identity, including them in new and surprising ways in their life experience.