Zavattini A-Z

It takes the choral dimension of a volume in the A-Z series to encompass the varied facets of Cesare Zavattini’s frenzied life devoted to continuous revolution. Signing himself ZA, he was a writer and inventor of book series, humorist, journalist and founder of newspapers, screenwriter and author of comics, writer for children, painter, critic, publisher, art collector, theorist of cinema, photography and literature, poet and diarist, playwright, director, talent scout, creator of cultural initiatives, advertising for marketing…
With an innovative critical approach, this volume edited by Guido Conti reinterprets his work as an avant-garde intellectual, rooted in Luzzara but with a European and global dimension, capable of influencing the cinemas of half the world. A friend of García Márquez, with his “visionary realism” he laid the foundations for South American “magical realism”. Spanning a century marked by two world wars and technological inventions such as cinema, radio, black and white and colour television, the tape recorder, and new printing technologies, Zavattini experimented, innovated and invented. His figure eludes all labels, because he has too many.

Texts by: Amedeo Anelli, Luisa Marinho Antunes, Roberto Barbolini, Paolo Barbaro, Giorgio Boccolari, Giorgio Casamatti, Maria Carla Cassarini, Roberto Chiesi, Guido Conti, Andrea Cortellessa, Gualtiero De Santi, Alberto Ferraboschi, Vanni Codeluppi, Michele Guerra, Cristina Jandelli, Daniela Marcheschi, Stefania Parigi, Gino Ruozzi, Lisa Sanguineti, Silvia Tomasi.