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Book SynopsisChapter 01: Introduction: Bringing Youth into Contemporary Italian Television.- Section 1: Trends.- Chapter 02: From Tre metri sopra il cielo to Summertime: The Evolution of the “filone giovanilistico” Through Time and Screens.- Chapter 03: Fashioning Identity in Contemporary Italian Youth Television Series.- Chapter 04: “Talkin’ ‘bout my Generation” The Role of Music in Italian Youth Television Series.- Chapter 05: “Teen” Sense of Place: The Representation of Italian Locations in Teen Television Series.- Chapter 06: Not Another Teen Drama: Rai, Platformization, and New Representations of Teenagers.- Chapter 07: Rai Fiction Teen Series for Mainstream Channels: Programming and Production.- Chapter 08: “Ma che stai dicendo?” A Linguistic Overview of Teen Representation in Italian Television Series.- Chapter 09: Baby... One More Time: Netflix Italia’s Original First Teen Dramas and the Struggle to Build a New Genre.- Chapter 10: A Girls’ Eye-view: Exploring Television Representations of Italian Girlhood through the Lens of Italian Female Adolescence.- Section 2: Texts.- Chapter 11: Queer Identifications, Activism, and Desire in SKAM Italia.- Chapter 12: “Vedo che siamo moderni, eh?” Representations of Social Media Use in SKAM Italia.- Chapter 13: Musica, Maestro! Notes on La Compagnia del Cigno’s Teen Cast.- Chapter 14: “Is This Italian TV?” How My Brilliant Friend Has Attained Success in Mainland China.- Chapter 15: Casa Surace’s Engagement with Southern Youth and National Success Amongst Young Italians.- Chapter 16: The Transmedia Universe of Mare Fuori.- Section 3: Close-ups.- Chapter 17: Male Bonding and Narrative Afterlives in Suburra: Blood on Rome.- Chapter 18: Incredible Casting: My Brilliant Friend.- Chapter 19: The Horrors of History in Netflix’s Curon.- Chapter 20: The Beach in Summertime.- Chapter 21: Wrecking the Lagoon: Reading Waste in We Are Who We Are’s Queer Adolescence.- Chapter 22: We Are Who We Are or Queerness as Atmospheric.- Chapter 23: Visualising the Invisible: Zero and Afro-Italian Urban Utopias.- Chapter 24: A Tale of Three Teenagers and a City: Romulus, or the Foundation of Rome According to Sky Italia.- Chapter 25: The Pathos of Transnationalism: Exploring the Tourist Gaze in Anna.- Chapter 26: Generazione 56K: Nostalgia as a Way to Convergence Media Practices.- Chapter 27: An Astrological Guide for Broken Hearts, or Emily in Paris in Turin.- Chapter 28: Luna Park: La dolce vita and Retro History.- Chapter 29: Coming of Age in Naples in The Lying Life of Adults.- Chapter 30: Prisma: Building a Game of Mirrors.- Chapter 31: Teens in Prison: Control and Redemption in Mare fuori.- Section 4: Interview.- Chapter 32: Putting Your Own Stamp on the Writing of Others: A Conversation with Ivan Silvestrini, Director of Mare Fuori.- Chapter 33: Youth Culture, Diversity, and Italianness on Television: An Interview with Ludovico Bessegato.- Chapter 34: Desperately Seeking Diversity: Challenges and Breakthroughs in the Casting of Netflix’s Zero.- Chapter 35: “Indeed there is magic in casting”: An Interview with Sara Casani and Laura Muccino.
