When Flavia Laviosa was a young woman in Bari, Italy, she had a front-row seat for a golden age of artistry in Italian cinema. “I grew up at a time when education became free and accessible to everyone, and I had easy access to film screenings,” says Laviosa, senior lecturer in Italian Studies.

“Those were the years, into the ’70s, when the great masters of Italian cinema started making and distributing their masterpieces—Fellini, Antonioni, Visconti, Rossellini, Pasolini. We were being educated to the best film aesthetics that Italy could produce.”

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