Lorenza Mazzetti by Cristina Massaccesi

This podcast outlines the London experiences of Italian writer and director Lorenza Mazzetti (1928-2020). After a traumatic childhood marked by loss and tragedy, Mazzetti arrived in England in the early 1950s and became a student at the Slade School of Fine Art. During her time at UCL, she made two films - K (1954) and Together (1956) - that contributed to the birth of the Free Cinema movement and to the renovation of British cinema. Cristina Massaccesi is a Senior Teaching Fellow in SELCS' Department of Italian. Her volume on F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. A Symphony of Horror (Liverpool University Press, Devil's Advocates) has been published in 2015. Her new book on hybrid sci-fi and James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) will be published in 2021 as part of Liverpool University Press' series on science fiction classics Constellations. Find out more about the Faculty of Arts & Humanities induction for new and returning students, Inspiring Minds 2020, at https://bit.ly/inspiring-minds.