RESEARCH

Intro

RESEARCH

RESEARCH

Intro

RESEARCH

DETECt is a large collaborative initiative that involves scholars, teachers, students, professionals of the creative industries, and the general public in investigating how practices of transnational production, distribution and consumption in the field of popular culture have facilitated the appearance of engaging representations of Europe’s cultural identity.

In accordance with the priority defined by the European Agenda for Culture in a Globalised World to promote cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, it studies the role played by the mobility of people, works and representations in circulating images and themes that constitute a shared cultural asset for large sectors of the European society.

It contributes to the writing of a new narrative of the Europeanisation process by creating and testing new learning methods, resources and tools designed to stimulate the emergence of new creative projects addressed to transnational audiences explicitly dealing with the representation of Europe.

While the project addresses a specific narrative genre such as crime, its innovative methodology is expected to have a wider and significant impact of on the study of contemporary European popular culture.

More particularly, DETECt aims to answer the following research questions:

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What are the main differences and similarities in media systems across the continent, and how do they influence the production and circulation of written and screened crime fiction?
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How have funding strategies and practices of publication, production, distribution, and translation developed across the continent, from 1989 to the present?
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How do local, national, and transnational media policies affect the publication, production, distribution, and translation of crime narratives across the continent?
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How do adaptation and serialization of crime fiction impact the production, translation, and circulation of European crime titles?
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What is the relationship between the territorial marketing and cultural tourism strategies developed across the continent by local institutions and the consolidated trend towards the “regionalization” of the European crime genre?
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What are the factors that encourage audience engagement in consuming crime narratives? How is this engagement expressed in relation to the issue of European identity?
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What are the main themes and figures through which European transcultural identity is represented in the contemporary crime genre?
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How do factors such as translation, serialization, and adaptation affect the representations of European identity?
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How do narrative spaces and places affect the representations of European identity?
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How can research in popular culture promote the formation of a plural and shared European identity?