Horizon 2020 Research Project - DETECt – Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narratives

Federico Pagello is Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Together with Monica Dall’Asta he has designed and coordinated the DETECt project. His research focuses on the transnational circulation of European popular culture, transmedia serial narratives, and film theory. He is the author of two monographs: Grattacieli e superuomini. L’immagine della città fra cinema e fumetto (Le Mani, 2010), Quentin Tarantino and Film Theory: Aesthetics and Dialectics in Late Postmodernity (Palgave Macmillan, 2020).