Gomorra. Fenomenologia di un successo seriale

The world's best-known and best-selling Italian series, analyzed from a narrative, linguistic, and stylistic perspective. Now in its fifth and final season, Gomorrah has long been a model, especially when compared to Italian TV series. Castellano begins with production, analyzing marketing, ratings, and costs to understand its success with audiences and critics in diverse countries around the world. Profiles of each season—with cast, credits, and detailed plots—are accompanied by an analysis of the series' relationship with Roberto Saviano's book and Matteo Garrone's film. The anticipation it created among viewers and the unexpected twists and turns in the handling of key characters, the relationship between the various seasons and the changing directors, the influence of major American TV series, and the communication strategy are some of the key aspects on which the critical reflection on the series' expressive characteristics and structure focuses, lucidly.