Storytelling
In this cultural model, our media institutions are basically in the narrative or storytelling business. Media stories put events in context, helping us to better understand both our daily lives and the larger world. The narrative as the dominant symbolic way we make sense of experience and articulate our values is often a vehicle for delivering “common sense.” Therefore, ideas, values, and beliefs can be carried in our mainstream stories, the stories we tell and find in daily conversations, in the local paper, in political ads, on the evening news, or in books, magazines, movies, favorite TV shows, and online. The narrative, then, is the normal and familiar structure that aids in converting ideas, values, and beliefs to common sense-normalizing them into “just the way things are.”
Since its inception in the mid-1950s, television drama has displayed distinctive features that are the hallmarks of its identity and its difference, and which, to extent that they are related to national history and culture, provide deep insights into the past and present Italian society. Due to the peculiar openness of the Italian cultural space, the identity formation of television storytelling has taken shape over the years through a process of interaction and recombination between native and foreign, national and trans-national elements. Informed by the nation’s rich historical and cultural heritage, as well as a string of notable American imports, the narratives.
Since its inception in the mid-1950s, television drama has displayed distinctive features that are the hallmarks of its identity and its difference, and which, to extent that they are related to national history and culture, provide deep insights into the past and present Italian society. Due to the peculiar openness of the Italian cultural space, the identity formation of television storytelling has taken shape over the years through a process of interaction and recombination between native and foreign, national and trans-national elements. Informed by the nation’s rich historical and cultural heritage, as well as a string of notable American imports, the narratives.