Starting from his book “Serial Communities. Narrated worlds and media experiences in television series” (Meltemi, 2022), Massimiliano Coviello spoke with Angela Maiello, cinema and television researcher at the University of Calabria, with Dario Sardelli, television author and writer, and Valentina Re, full professor of cinema and television at the Link University.
The meeting was an opportunity to discuss the processes of building communities through contemporary seriality. In particular, we addressed European crime production which, in recent years, has assumed a central role in the processes of building communities, national and transnational memories. The importance of crime is linked to its popularity and longevity, its ability to adapt to specific geographical contexts and make them attractive to an international audience.

Finally, crime can be thought of as a narrative habitat for the construction of communities based on a common imagination, on cultural encounters and on the construction of shared memories, also starting from the traumas that crossed Europe in the twentieth century.