Nick Brattoli is a PhD candidate in the Department of Romance Studies, Italian Section. He received his B.A. at Wesleyan University in the College of Social Studies and Italian Studies. His research focuses on the relationship between film and the Italian postwar modernization process as understood through the prism of “circulation” as theoretically articulated in biopolitics and philosophies of praxis. He is also interested in the history and legacy of Italian social movements during Italy’s 1970s, a contentious decade of political, economic, and cultural social challenges and change.