A genre: the French polar from Fantômas to Maigret

The last meeting is dedicated to more consumer literature, the serial one, with particular reference to the genre that has always been most loved by readers and the public, still today: the detective story, in its variants. The French case is analysed, where literary and cinematographic seriality was born at the beginning of the 20th century as the heir to the 19th century feuilleton and evolved as a product of the nascent mass cultural industry, moving on to the birth of a genre, the polar, which also bears in its name the fusion of cinema and literature, ending with Georges Simenon's creation of a character such as Inspector Maigret, an inexhaustible source for books, cinema and television.

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