Michael Buonanno
Biographic Data
| ID | 689389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Buonanno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Buonanno |
| SIGNATURE | BUONANNO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0430-8155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Un nuovo paradigma nel campo dei feminist television studies
Gli anni duemila hanno visto emergere sulla scena internazionale dei gender/feminist media studies un corpus crescente di letteratura accademica che, contrapponendosi alla invisibilità in cui la convenzionale storiografia dei media relega la presenza femminile, si impegna a riconoscere e valorizzare il lavoro e il ruolo cruciale delle donne nella storia degli stessi media. Alla intersezione tra approccio biografico, storiografico e media industry…
Serialidade: Continuidade e ruptura no ambiente midiático e cultural contemporâneo
Este artigo objetiva problematizar duas tendências centrais nos estudos recentes sobre a serialidade, mais especificamente como a nova era de abundante produção e consumo de narrativas serializadas se relaciona com a serialidade da forma como ela era avaliada e vivida em épocas passadas. Estão em jogo aqui questões de continuidade e/ou ruptura no mutável cenário das narrativas midiáticas. Defino as duas tendências, respectivamente, como a da cont…
Seriality: Development and disruption in the contemporary medial and cultural environment
This article aims to problematise two main tendencies that can be discerned in recent scholarship concerning seriality and how the new era of bountiful production and consumption of serialised narratives relates to seriality as we have known it in previous eras. At stake here are matters of continuity and/or disruption in the changing landscape of media storytelling. I define the two tendencies, respectively, as denied continuity - since it argue…
Widening landscapes of TV storytelling in the digital media environment of the 21st century
In this paper I intend to revisit from a critical perspective some issues related to the contemporary landscape of fictional TV storytelling: scripted shows whose consumption and reputation have witnessed significant changes in the 21st century. My interest focuses on what I call “narrative plenitude”, the exceptional profusion of serialized fictions that are now available, anytime, anywhere, on the myriad of channels and platforms in the ever-ex…
Thematic Issue on The End of Television (Not Yet): Editor’s Introduction
This editorial provides background considerations for challenging the long taken-for-granted narrative of the passing of television in the digital era, thus inviting scholars to re-interrogate the place of the medium in the new technology-saturated environment from perspectives that are not informed by the unquestioned assumption that the age of television is over
A (premature) eulogy of broadcasting: The sense of the ending of television
The vanishing centrality of broadcast television has turned into a key issue within contemporary media studies, thus making the end of television a familiar trope in scholarly discourses and opening the way to a redefinition of the present-day phase in terms of post-broadcast era. Besides recognizing that there are plenty of places in the world where the broadcast era is still alive, this article makes the claim that the discoursive formation of …
Gender and Media Studies: Progress and Challenge in a Vibrant Research Field
Anàlisi is a science journal published by the Journalism and Communication Sciences Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). The journal has been published by the UAB Journalism Department since 1980. Anàlisi publishes science articles in the fields of the communication sciences: journalism, advertising and public relations, audiovisual communication, internet, multimedia and similar areas, always from the social and cultural v…
Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives
Book Review| January 01 2013 Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives. Edited by Joseph Sciorra. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. x + 257 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $28 (paper). Michael Buonanno Michael Buonanno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 32 (2): 123–125. https://doi.org/10.5406/…
Transnational Television Drama: Special Relations and Mutual Influence Between the US and UK
Italian TV Drama and Beyond: Stories from the Soil, Stories from the Sea
Stories of exemplary lives. Biographies
pt: O artigo examina tipologias de biografias, especialmente, em narrativas televisivas.>>>en: The paper examines tipologies of biographies, especially the t
Remembering Manuel
From Literary to Format Adaptation: Multiple Interactions between the Foreign and Domestic in Italian TV Drama
La “rivoluzione” digitale: Altri modi di vedere la televisione
The article revolves around the much hyped phenomenon that is currently known as “digital revolution”, putting forward an exhortation to ‘curb the enthusiasm’ toward the techonological innovation and its supposedly all positive and progressive impact. Relying on a selected body of scholarly works, the author warns against the risks both of technological determinism and historical amnesia: two intellectual stances which lead to undermine the decis…
My Media Studies: Shadows in Plato's Cave
Television drama as central story-telling system in contemporary Italy
The article will reconstructs the «success story» of end-of-century italian tv fiction, within the context of cultural processes and industrial and regulatory factors that have grounded and supported it. The elements which relate the television story-telling to the italian identity, will be focused; with special reference to the powerful wave of stories which, at the millennium turn, have drawn inspiration and contents from the source of the cath…
The 'Sailor' and the 'Peasant: The Italian Police Series between Foreign and Domestic
Applying the categorisation made by Walter Benjamin as regards popular storytelling - stories told by sailors, and stories told by peasants, the former being internationally oriented and the latter locally based - this paper reconsiders the history of Italian police drama as in transition from 'foreign' or international to 'domestic' or national/local storytelling. This transition follows three phases: the adaptation of foreign classics in the fi…
Italian Ambivalence
Studies in Italian American Folklore
News- Values and Fiction- Values: News as Serial Device and Criteria of `Fictionworthiness' in Italian Television Fiction
There has been a growing tendency over recent years for Italian television fiction to draw its stories from topical issues and news events. This tendency has been influenced, if not determined, by a wide range of interrelated factors: the `reality syndrome'; an increasing interest in news; growing intertextuality and intermediality in media discourses; the need for the `return of the already known'. Based on a long-term research project, this art…
The Palermitan Epic: Dialogism and the Inscription of Social Relations
Through an exploration of the Palermitan puppeteers' narrative repertoire, that single genre of narrative privileged by puppeteers and audiences alike-epicreveals itself to be a critique ofPalermitan social relations. Multigenericity, or the convocation of characters from disparate genres of traditional narrative, and dialogism, or the citation of real, Palermitan voices by these disparate characters, are the means by which Palermitan society bec…
Seriality: Development and disruption in the contemporary medial and cultural environment
This article aims to problematise two main tendencies that can be discerned in recent scholarship concerning seriality and how the new era of bountiful production and consumption of serialised narratives relates to seriality as we have known it in previous eras. At stake here are matters of continuity and/or disruption in the changing landscape of media storytelling. I define the two tendencies, respectively, as denied continuity - since it argue…
Widening landscapes of TV storytelling in the digital media environment of the 21st century
In this paper I intend to revisit from a critical perspective some issues related to the contemporary landscape of fictional TV storytelling: scripted shows whose consumption and reputation have witnessed significant changes in the 21st century. My interest focuses on what I call “narrative plenitude”, the exceptional profusion of serialized fictions that are now available, anytime, anywhere, on the myriad of channels and platforms in the ever-ex…
Thematic Issue on The End of Television (Not Yet): Editor’s Introduction
This editorial provides background considerations for challenging the long taken-for-granted narrative of the passing of television in the digital era, thus inviting scholars to re-interrogate the place of the medium in the new technology-saturated environment from perspectives that are not informed by the unquestioned assumption that the age of television is over
From Literary to Format Adaptation: Multiple Interactions between the Foreign and Domestic in Italian TV Drama
A (premature) eulogy of broadcasting: The sense of the ending of television
The vanishing centrality of broadcast television has turned into a key issue within contemporary media studies, thus making the end of television a familiar trope in scholarly discourses and opening the way to a redefinition of the present-day phase in terms of post-broadcast era. Besides recognizing that there are plenty of places in the world where the broadcast era is still alive, this article makes the claim that the discoursive formation of …
Gender and Media Studies: Progress and Challenge in a Vibrant Research Field
Anàlisi is a science journal published by the Journalism and Communication Sciences Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). The journal has been published by the UAB Journalism Department since 1980. Anàlisi publishes science articles in the fields of the communication sciences: journalism, advertising and public relations, audiovisual communication, internet, multimedia and similar areas, always from the social and cultural v…
The Palermitan Epic: Dialogism and the Inscription of Social Relations
Through an exploration of the Palermitan puppeteers' narrative repertoire, that single genre of narrative privileged by puppeteers and audiences alike-epicreveals itself to be a critique ofPalermitan social relations. Multigenericity, or the convocation of characters from disparate genres of traditional narrative, and dialogism, or the citation of real, Palermitan voices by these disparate characters, are the means by which Palermitan society bec…
News- Values and Fiction- Values: News as Serial Device and Criteria of `Fictionworthiness' in Italian Television Fiction
There has been a growing tendency over recent years for Italian television fiction to draw its stories from topical issues and news events. This tendency has been influenced, if not determined, by a wide range of interrelated factors: the `reality syndrome'; an increasing interest in news; growing intertextuality and intermediality in media discourses; the need for the `return of the already known'. Based on a long-term research project, this art…
Studies in Italian American Folklore
Italian Ambivalence
The 'Sailor' and the 'Peasant: The Italian Police Series between Foreign and Domestic
Applying the categorisation made by Walter Benjamin as regards popular storytelling - stories told by sailors, and stories told by peasants, the former being internationally oriented and the latter locally based - this paper reconsiders the history of Italian police drama as in transition from 'foreign' or international to 'domestic' or national/local storytelling. This transition follows three phases: the adaptation of foreign classics in the fi…
Television drama as central story-telling system in contemporary Italy
The article will reconstructs the «success story» of end-of-century italian tv fiction, within the context of cultural processes and industrial and regulatory factors that have grounded and supported it. The elements which relate the television story-telling to the italian identity, will be focused; with special reference to the powerful wave of stories which, at the millennium turn, have drawn inspiration and contents from the source of the cath…
La “rivoluzione” digitale: Altri modi di vedere la televisione
The article revolves around the much hyped phenomenon that is currently known as “digital revolution”, putting forward an exhortation to ‘curb the enthusiasm’ toward the techonological innovation and its supposedly all positive and progressive impact. Relying on a selected body of scholarly works, the author warns against the risks both of technological determinism and historical amnesia: two intellectual stances which lead to undermine the decis…
My Media Studies: Shadows in Plato's Cave
From Literary to Format Adaptation: Multiple Interactions between the Foreign and Domestic in Italian TV Drama
Remembering Manuel
Stories of exemplary lives. Biographies
pt: O artigo examina tipologias de biografias, especialmente, em narrativas televisivas.>>>en: The paper examines tipologies of biographies, especially the t
Italian TV Drama and Beyond: Stories from the Soil, Stories from the Sea
Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives
Book Review| January 01 2013 Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives. Edited by Joseph Sciorra. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011. x + 257 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $28 (paper). Michael Buonanno Michael Buonanno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2013) 32 (2): 123–125. https://doi.org/10.5406/…
Transnational Television Drama: Special Relations and Mutual Influence Between the US and UK
Gender and Media Studies: Progress and Challenge in a Vibrant Research Field
Anàlisi is a science journal published by the Journalism and Communication Sciences Department of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). The journal has been published by the UAB Journalism Department since 1980. Anàlisi publishes science articles in the fields of the communication sciences: journalism, advertising and public relations, audiovisual communication, internet, multimedia and similar areas, always from the social and cultural v…
A (premature) eulogy of broadcasting: The sense of the ending of television
The vanishing centrality of broadcast television has turned into a key issue within contemporary media studies, thus making the end of television a familiar trope in scholarly discourses and opening the way to a redefinition of the present-day phase in terms of post-broadcast era. Besides recognizing that there are plenty of places in the world where the broadcast era is still alive, this article makes the claim that the discoursive formation of …
Thematic Issue on The End of Television (Not Yet): Editor’s Introduction
This editorial provides background considerations for challenging the long taken-for-granted narrative of the passing of television in the digital era, thus inviting scholars to re-interrogate the place of the medium in the new technology-saturated environment from perspectives that are not informed by the unquestioned assumption that the age of television is over
Widening landscapes of TV storytelling in the digital media environment of the 21st century
In this paper I intend to revisit from a critical perspective some issues related to the contemporary landscape of fictional TV storytelling: scripted shows whose consumption and reputation have witnessed significant changes in the 21st century. My interest focuses on what I call “narrative plenitude”, the exceptional profusion of serialized fictions that are now available, anytime, anywhere, on the myriad of channels and platforms in the ever-ex…
Serialidade: Continuidade e ruptura no ambiente midiático e cultural contemporâneo
Este artigo objetiva problematizar duas tendências centrais nos estudos recentes sobre a serialidade, mais especificamente como a nova era de abundante produção e consumo de narrativas serializadas se relaciona com a serialidade da forma como ela era avaliada e vivida em épocas passadas. Estão em jogo aqui questões de continuidade e/ou ruptura no mutável cenário das narrativas midiáticas. Defino as duas tendências, respectivamente, como a da cont…
Seriality: Development and disruption in the contemporary medial and cultural environment
This article aims to problematise two main tendencies that can be discerned in recent scholarship concerning seriality and how the new era of bountiful production and consumption of serialised narratives relates to seriality as we have known it in previous eras. At stake here are matters of continuity and/or disruption in the changing landscape of media storytelling. I define the two tendencies, respectively, as denied continuity - since it argue…
Un nuovo paradigma nel campo dei feminist television studies
Gli anni duemila hanno visto emergere sulla scena internazionale dei gender/feminist media studies un corpus crescente di letteratura accademica che, contrapponendosi alla invisibilità in cui la convenzionale storiografia dei media relega la presenza femminile, si impegna a riconoscere e valorizzare il lavoro e il ruolo cruciale delle donne nella storia degli stessi media. Alla intersezione tra approccio biografico, storiografico e media industry…
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