Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema (review)

Girls’ Violence: Beyond Dangerous Masculinity

In this article, we review criminological perspectives of girls’ violence. To do this, we first look at the 20th-century tendency to view violent girls as being the same as violent boys or as taking up dangerous types of masculinity. Second, we consider the contemporary ways that researchers have tried to move beyond male-centered and masculinized explanations of female violence. Noting potenti...

Rescuing “Damsels in Distress”: Chinese Women in Contemporary Italian Cinema

After the “Year of Italy in China” in 2006, Italian films with Chinese themes witnessed a boom in popularity. This article focuses on three films produced during the period: The Missing Star (2006), Two Tigers (2007), and Shun Li and the Poet (2011). The article analyzes the roles assigned to Chinese women and their western costars, reveals the common patterns with which images of Chinese “dams...

Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology

Marcello Malpighi and the Evolution of Embryology, by HOWARD B. ADELMANN, 5 vols. (pp. 2475) 4to, 16 plates (11 col.), map, Cornell University Press and Oxford University Press, 1966. £70. Howard Adelmann made his first venture into the history of embryology in 1933 with his study of Volcher Coiter. Twenty-five years ago, in 1942, he followed this with The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus ...

The correspondence of Marcello Malpighi

Beyond EC8: the new Italian seismic code

The 2002 Molise earthquake, which was defined by seismologists as a normal event in the geodynamics of the Italian peninsula but had an international resonance due to the collapse of a primary school, triggered a series of research initiatives in earthquake engineering and significant modifications to building codes in Italy. The modifications were completed at the beginning of 2008 with the re...