Le serie web sul carcere in Italia. Da Belli dentro alle storie sul web

The aim of this work is to reflect on the reasons why in Italy the narrative heuristic wealth of a particular context, such as the prison, has not been sufficiently appreciated. By mapping, off-line and on-line productions on the topic, we will try to understand how this total institution has been represented, if it was recognized as a "serial institution par excellence" for its repetitiveness, regularity and predictability and presented as a place that "holds" numerically infinite compelling stories. The route begins, in fact, with the identification of common features among the media, particularly television series, and the prison experience: relation between inside / outside, territorial multiplicity, status subversions, identification of accesses to inaccessible worlds, use of specific languages and adoption of rules that redefine the space-time dimensions of everyday life. We then look at certain very successful Anglo-Saxon prison tales and we describe tracing the differences, the web Italian series: low cost productions that have recently expressed an interest to prison’s stories, often even limiting it to issues concerning the inclusion and social protest in general. An opportunity still not fully recognized as such and, for this reason, only partially investigated