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Emilio Ghione and the Mask of Za La Mort
This study aims to examine the cultural impact of Emilio Ghione's Za La Mort films (1914-1924) on Italian culture. These films constitute a significant Italian combination of several early cinema genres and sub-genres, such as the apache film, the traces of which have almost entirely disappeared. More broadly, the changing interpretations of Za La Mort figure allow us to understand wider shifts in Italian and European popular culture.
The first chapter of the study considers the wealth of influences from European popular culture that Emilio Ghione merged into the apache films, such as the apache sub-culture in Paris. The second chapter of the study then reconstructs the Za La Mort filmography, most of which has now been lost, from film viewings and archival documents. The third chapter considers Emilio Ghione's Za La Mort novels and theatrical productions in the years 1922-1930, and Ghione's attempts to make Za La Mort a more Fascist and nationalistic figure. The fourth chapter considers the enduring figure of Za La Mort in Italian popular culture, especially in Raffaele Matarazzo's Fumeria D'Oppio and a 1940's fumetti series. The fifth chapter considers the audience reception of the Za La Mort films from the limited remaining evidence and, positioning the series between the Cinema of Attractions of the 1900s and the Classical Cinema of the mid-1920's, analyses how the Za La Mort films were constructed to please a predominantly working class audience that valued spectacular thrills and great acting performances over narrative consistency and stable characterisation.
This research re-establishes the importance of one of Italian cinema's most important film-makers of the silent period, and his enduring importance as a popular cultural figure in Italy
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Breve ricordo della vita di missione a Tell Barri, dedicato al suo direttore, prof. Paolo Emilio Pecorell
Alternative producer-consumer relationships: the AgroGeoTrace project and the speciality products virtual roads
The AgroGeoTrace (AGT) project makes use of Geographical Information Systems and multichannel information technologies to facilitate the access of final consumers to local food speciality products. The project builds a prototype of an informative system designed, first, to help consumers to understand the agronomic and technological characteristics that make the targeted products special ones, and, second, to precisely and easily locate the sites (farms and oil mills) where they can buy them. The information made available through the project is intended to the symbolic relocalization of the regional products, hence to promote them and to create added value. The final outcomes of the project are the virtual maps of on-farm shops made available on Digital television (channel In+), PDAs and mobile phones.food speciality products, short agro-food chains, Geographical Information Systems, Agribusiness,
The future of choline pet in the era of PMSA
Radiolabeled choline was the first radiopharmaceutical agent employed in prostate cancer patients. It has been considered a metabolic agent able to detect the presence of prostate cancer cell, both in the initial phase of the disease and in the restaging setting. Three agents are now available in clinical practice: one radiolabeled with 11C (called 11C-Choline) and two with 18F (either as 18F-methylcholine or 18F-ethylcholine). During the years, different studies have been performed with 11C -Choline and 18F- Choline demonstrating their performance for the detection of prostate cancer, in different settings of the disease. However, recently, new radiopharmaceutical agents for prostate cancer have been developed, gaining an important role for the diagnosis of prostate cancer, particularly in the restaging setting. The present review has been conceived in order to discuss the current role of radiolabeled choline PET/CT in the era of new agents for prostate cancer, in particular in the era of radiolabeled PSMA
Bone Metastases from Prostate Cancer.Biology, Diagnosis and Management
This book presents up-to-date information on one of the hottest topics in prostate cancer, namely bone metastases. The most recent developments with respect to biology, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment are described, providing readers with an excellent understanding of the mechanisms of metastasis formation, the characteristics of metastases, their aggressiveness, and prognostic factors for treatment response. The coverage includes discussion of all of the best available options (laboratory, radiology, and nuclear medicine) for achieving early diagnosis and both established and novel therapeutic approaches. Detailed information is provided on hormonal manipulations, bone-targeted agents, vaccines, taxanes, and other treatments that are enriching the therapeutic armamentarium. The editors can be considered leaders in the field, with great experience in diagnostic and clinical oncology and research, and the authors are experts in diverse specialties. This ensures a multidisciplinary approach, mirroring the current situation in which treatment in patients with bone metastases is undertaken by a team of specialists and health professionals in a variety of fields
Dalle necropoli comunitarie alle necropoli urbane. Percezione degli spazi e assetto del territorio fra abitato e necropoli a Cipro durante l’Età del Bronzo
Nuclear medicine and the revolution in the modern management of castration-resistant prostate cancer patients: from (223)Ra-dichloride to new horizons for therapeutic response assessment
Emilio Quevedo, historian of Colombian medicine
No solo es el artífice de los libros que dan cuenta de los hechos que sucedieron en la medicina nacional por varios siglos, también es el promotor de la reconstrucción de la historia médica en Latinoamérica. Perfil de uno de los personajes más sobresalientes de la historia de la medicina.Not only is he the author of books recounting the milestones of Colombian medicine over several centuries; he is also the prime mover behind the reconstruction of medical history in Latin America. This is the profile of one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine
Mitologije Arberesev
In this article Emilio Cocco investigates the reasons why it should be important to write of the contemporary political mythology of the Arbereshe, an old Albanian minority that settled in Southern Italy from the 16th century onwards. Emilio Cocco assumes that some good reasons can be found in the political situation concerning Albania, Italy and broadly speaking the whole regional stability. Although the importance of such a tiny ethnic community could be consideed residual, the author suggests that on the contrary a reflection on Arbereshe mythological self-representation should be endorsed, especially nowadays. In fact, Emilio Cocco thinks that from little occurences and smal phenomena it might be possibile to better understand larger problems. Even though, for many observers could not be easy to see the link between the populr imagination in some scattered villages and international security problems. Conversely, it is exactly when the outburst of violence, troubles and illegal activities affects straightaway the stability and the security prospects of the area that more unseen and marginal- though important – issues run the risk to be let apart. The Arbereshe are barely recognised within contemporary Italy and subsist as one of the most neglected community from a political point of view. On the contrary, other sub-alpine national minorities are largely granted and manage to play important roles into the internal and foreigh affairs. AS a matter of fact, while the French, German and Slovenia minorities got a special status within autonomous regions of the Italian Republic, the Arbereshe did not. The link with Albania is just fanciful and emotional, inscribed in people imagination but never really legitimised politically. Accordingly, Emilio Cocco attempts to investigate the significance of the 15th century overseas memories in the making of the Arbereshe identity. Moreover, he tries to highlight the nature of the Italo-Albanian bond constituted by the special Arbereshe experience. In other words, the point he makes is that the alleged descendants of the Skanderbeg would bear a double identity and their mythological make-up would work for a supra-national political identity, which is summed up by the sentence “Two Hearts, One country” and is symbolised by the image of Skanderbeg itself. The article is divided in three main parts: in the first one Emilio Cocco analyses some important pieces of work of the modern Arbereshe intellectual elite. In the second one, he considers the political present day implications of the famous epic of Skanderbeg. Finally, in the third part, Cocco illustrate show concretely the double-identity pattern keeps on projecting the Arbereshe community outside a single national framework. [...
Emilio Quevedo, historian of Colombian medicine
No solo es el artífice de los libros que dan cuenta de los hechos que sucedieron en la medicina nacional por varios siglos, también es el promotor de la reconstrucción de la historia médica en Latinoamérica. Perfil de uno de los personajes más sobresalientes de la historia de la medicina.Not only is he the author of books recounting the milestones of Colombian medicine over several centuries; he is also the prime mover behind the reconstruction of medical history in Latin America. This is the profile of one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine
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