Rushing, Robert A.: - 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.