लेखक: Monica Dall Asta

Monica Dall’Asta is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy. She has written widely about early film seriality, the history of film theories, and the work of women in the early film industries. She is one of the founding editors of the Women Film Pioneers Project and served as Coordinator of the DETECt-Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives project (2018–21).  Jacques Migozzi is Professor of French Literature at the University of Limoges, France, where he leads the Groupe de recherches sur les Littératures Populaires et Cultures Médiatiques. Having written about popular fiction for 30 years, he published a synthetical essay in 2005,  Boulevards du Populaire,  and has edited or co-edited 12 volumes or journal special issues.  Federico Pagello teaches Film and Media Studies at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. His current research focuses on popular serial narratives and their transmedia and transmedia circulation, with a particular attention to the crime genre. His most recent monograph is entitled Quentin Tarantino and Film Theory: Aesthetics and Dialectics in Late Postmodernity (Palgrave 2020).  Andrew Pepper is Professor of English at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is author of Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State (2016) and co-editor of Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Palgrave 2016) and The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2020).