TY - JOUR AU - Coviello, Massimiliano AU - Re, Valentina PY - 2021/04/19 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Translocal Landscapes: La porta rossa and the Use of Peripheral Locations in Contemporary Italian TV Crime Drama JF - Academic Quarter | Akademisk kvarter JA - AcademicQuarter VL - IS - 22 SE - DO - 10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.vi22.6601 UR - https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/6601 SP - 60-78 AB - <p class="p1"><span class="s1">The article introduces and discusses the notion of ‘peripheral locations’ as a key concept for understanding the relation between, on the one hand, the production and distribution strategies of contem</span>porary Italian television and, on the other, screen tourism initiatives. After defining the notion and stressing its relevance in the <span class="s1">European circulation of national crime productions, the article focuses on the TV series <em>La porta rossa</em> (<em>The Red Door</em>) as a case study. The series is co-produced by Rai Fiction and Vela Film (Garbo Produzioni from the second season) and is internationally distributed </span>by Studio Canal. Set in the city of Trieste, close to the border be<span class="s1">tween Italy and Slovenia, the story plot intertwines crime and fantasy. The series’ production history demonstrates the complex role played by peripheral locations in both the writing process and the </span>represented fictional world. The Virtual Reality walking tours or<span class="s1">ganised by Esterno/Giorno – a tourism organisation related to the regional film commission of Friuli Venezia Giulia, which also contributed its own funding into the production – underline how peripheral locations can help create innovative and engaging forms of screen tourism.</span></p> ER -