From made in Italy to etno-chic. Some thoughts on costume design in contemporary Italian cinema (class, gender and national identity)

This article outlines an overview of the relationship between costume and film in contemporary Italian cinema, with particular reference to class, gender and ideological discourse. Considering Italian film production in the last fifteen to twenty years, from popular film to auteur cinema, the article lays out the challenge of cultural stereotypes about ‘Made in Italy’ and its meanings in a global age. The significance of costume will be explored in terms of plot and character development, mise-en-scène and visuality, negotiating cinematic technique, film analysis and cultural interpretation. More specifically, and with particular reference to the work of Stephen Gundle, we investigate how costume design of male and female characters embodies national discourses such as nostalgia, male anxiety and the ideals of feminine beauty

Le cinema italien et la Shoah: un regard sur le quinze dernières années (2001-2015)

LE CINÉMA ITALIEN ET LA SHOAH : UN REGARD SUR LES QUINZE DERNIÈRES ANNÉES (2001-2015

The tyrosine phosphatase CD148 is an essential positive regulator of platelet activation and thrombosis

Platelets play a fundamental role in hemostasis and thrombosis. They are also involved in pathologic conditions resulting from blocked blood vessels, including myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke. Platelet adhesion, activation, and aggregation at sites of vascular injury are regulated by a diverse repertoire of tyrosine kinase–linked and G protein–coupled receptors. Src family kinases (SFKs) play a central role in initiating and propagating signaling from several platelet surface receptors; however, the underlying mechanism of how SFK activity is regulated in platelets remains unclear. CD148 is the only receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase identified in platelets to date. In the present study, we show that mutant mice lacking CD148 exhibited a bleeding tendency and defective arterial thrombosis. Basal SFK activity was found to be markedly reduced in CD148-deficient platelets, resulting in a global hyporesponsiveness to agonists that signal through SFKs, including collagen and fibrinogen. G protein–coupled receptor responses to thrombin and other agonists were also marginally reduced. These results highlight CD148 as a global regulator of platelet activation and a novel antithrombotic drug targe

Prevalence of hypertension: importance of epidemiologic studies and the need to spot undiagnosed cases

The actual prevalence and incidence of hypertension could have been higher and even more impactful on public health. Nonetheless, the work by Cegłowska et al. remains an important epidemiologic study, carefully conducted on nation wide scale. It demonstrates how arterial hypertension is extremely widespread, and highlights the need to improve blood pressure monitoring within a collaborative framework involving patients, general practitioners, and hypertension specialists, aimed at reducing the number of undiagnosed cases and improving patient management and public health. Moreover, since hypertension is becoming more prevalent in the elderly, efforts should be made to tailor health care to particular age groups

New Mexico Lobo, Volume 067, No 112, 5/18/1964

New Mexico Lobo, Volume 067, No 112, 5/18/1964https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1964/1059/thumbnail.jp

Spotlight Commentary:What's new with the old drug aspirin in older adults?

The benefit‐to‐harm balance of aspirin has been further questioned

With a hat and a red scarf: The construction of Federico Fellini’s public image

There are restaurants called ‘La Dolce Vita’ all over the world. Words like paparazzi have made it into dictionaries. Airports, streets, piazzas and schools are named after Federico Fellini. And yet, as cinema scholars understand, Fellini’s films are not nearly as well-known as one might expect – even if university students will call him ‘Maestro’ without hesitation, when quizzed about the great directors in the history of cinema. There is almost no trace of Fellini on Amazon Prime or Netflix. In the best-case scenario, to most ‘millennials’ and ‘post-millennials’ La Dolce Vita (1960) is not a film, but an image seen on Instagram or YouTube: Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg taking a dip in the Trevi Fountain, two unrivalled ‘influencers’ promoting the Italian brand and economic boom. In other words, far from being part of a ‘shared culture’, Fellini’s films have been reduced, over the course of time, to the clichés and stereotypes that feed the constellation of meanings surrounding the term ‘Felliniesque’, and this often discourages new (and updated) readings of his work...