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About Robert A. Rushing Books

Robert A. Rushing is Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA, where he also holds an affiliate appointment in Film, Television and Digital Me-dia. He is the author of Resisting Arrest: Detective Fiction and Popular Culture (2007) and Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen, winner of the 2016 AAIS (American Association for Italian Studies) Film/Media book prize. He is coeditor of two volumes on North American television: Mad Men, Mad World (2011) and Orphan Black (2018), and has published widely on Italian literature and cinema, especially popular genres and, of course, Italo Calvino.