“No Pulp Scenes on Raiuno!”. The Case of Cuori, an Italian Medical Drama on Broadcast Television

Elisa Farinacci is junior researcher at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna. She earned a PhD with a double degree in History at the Department of History, Culture, and Civilization of the University of Bologna and in Cultural Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At the Department of the Arts, she is working on the international circulation and reception of contemporary Italian audiovisual products. Since 2018 she has been part of the organizing committee of the Mediating Italy in Global Culture summer school. She is also collaborating with the Research Center on Media Education, Innovation and Education Technology (CREMIT) of the Catholic University of Milan where she is conducting research on the use of audiovisual products in educational environments. 

Emiliano Rossi is research fellow at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna. He earned a PhD in Cinema, Photography and Television at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna. His main area of interest is television, framed on a historical, social and productive level. He is responsible of Television and Web TV laboratory at the University of Bologna, and he also works as an adjunct professor at Padova and Bari University. In 2020 he was a visiting fellow at Lund University (tutor: prof. A. Hill). Since 2019 he has been part of the organizing committee of the Mediating Italy in Global Culture summer school. He collaborates with ATLas - Atlas of Local Television (PRIN 2020) and F-ACTOR - Forms of Contemporary Media Actorship (PRIN 2017).