Introduction: Tele-Archives. Reframing Archival Research on Local Televisions Across Europe

Giulia Crisanti; Myriam Mereu; Emiliano Rossi; Paola Zeni

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Giulia Crisanti Sapienza University of Rome

Giulia Crisanti received her PhD in Modern History from Fordham University (New York) in May 2021. She is currently a research fellow at La Sapienza University in Rome. She is also an adjunct lecturer in the U.S. History at the University of Pisa. Her research interests include the history of Italy-U.S. relations and cultural exchanges, business history, media and television history, and food history. Her book, Europeans Are Lovin’it? Coca Cola, McDonald’s and Responses to American Global Businesses in Italy and France, 1886–2015 (BRILL, 2023) received the Rob Kroes Publication Award from the European Association of American Studies (EAAS).
Myriam Mereu University of Cagliari

Myriam Mereu, after earning her PhD in Philological and Literary Studies at the University of Cagliari, embarked on a fruitful research path in the field of cinema and television. She has served multiple times as a research fellow in various projects on film and audiovisual media, including the PRIN 2020 project “ATLas – Atlante delle televisioni locali”. Her interests range from linguistic filmology to studies on voice and orality, from the relationship between cinema and literature to documentary and non-fiction cinema. More recently, she has developed a passion for television series, with a particular focus on the discursive and narrative practices of Italian teen dramas, which she has explored in several articles. She is also the author and host of radio and television programs in the Sardinian language. Her first monograph, Le voci dello schermo. Le lingue nel cinema sardo contemporaneo, was published by Mimesis in 2024.
Emiliano Rossi University of Bologna

Emiliano Rossi holds a PhD in Cinema, Photography and Television from the University of Bologna, where he works as a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of the Arts. His main area of interest is TV, from a social, historical and productive perspective. He teaches the Organisation and Management of Multimedia Systems course at the University of Bologna, and he is an adjunct professor at the universities of Padua and Udine. He wrote Schermi di trasporto. Storia, produzione, immaginari (Meltemi, Milano 2023), and his articles have appeared in several volumes and journals.
Paola Zeni University of Turin

Paola Zeni holds a PhD in Cinema, Photography and Television from the University of Verona. She carried out her postdoctoral research at the University of Turin, where she is currently a research fellow in the Department of Humanities. She teaches at the Universities of Turin and Padua. Her work focuses on stardom and screen performance, explored through historical and cultural perspectives. Her writings have appeared in academic journals and edited collections and she is the author of L’amazzone bianca. Luisa Ferida attrice e diva dell’Italia fascista (Mimesis, 2021) and Glamour and Pleasure. Bridgerton e la reinvenzione del period drama (Infinito Edizioni, 2025).

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