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The contributions gathered in this volume define and discuss concepts, themes, and theories related to contemporary audiovisual seriality. The series investigated include Black Mirror, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Penny Dreadful, Sherlock, Orange Is the New Black, Stranger Things, Vikings, and Westworld, to mention just some. Including contributions from social and media studies, linguistics, and literary and translation studies, this work reflects on seriality as a process of social, linguistic and gender/genre transformation. It explores the dynamics of reception, interaction, and translation; the relationship between authorship and mass consumption; the phenomena of multimodality, and intertextuality.

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Alfonso Amendola is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes at the University of Salerno, Italy. His main research interests deal with the history and sociology of media, technological innovation in artistic experimentation, innovative cultures, and mass consumption cultures. Linda Barone is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics and Translation at the University of Salerno, Italy. She has published on English for Specific Purposes, and corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches applied to language teaching and to text and genre analysis. Her work has also focused on literary linguistics, literary translation and audio-visual translation.Novella Troianiello obtained her PhD in Communication Science at the University of Salerno, Italy, with a thesis titled “Over the top television: Netflix and local markets”. She now collaborates with the Chair in Digital Media at the same institution.

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