Georges Sadoul

Georges Sadoul (1904 with Nancy, France - 1967 with Paris) is a Journaliste and writer French specialized in the Cinéma. It is especially known for the drafting of its Dictionnaire S on the cinema and the Cinéaste S, which are translated into English.

At 19 years, student in Nancy, it founds the Nancy-Paris Committee. The objective of this committee is to make it possible the population nancéienne to meet the Parisian productions and artists. It will make come, amongst other things, Jean Epstein, Henry Prunières, André Lurçat, Jacques Rivière, Jacques Copeau or André Lhote.

Old surrealist, it becomes communist in 1932. He was journalist with the French Lettres .

He is the author of L general Histoire of the cinema (1940), document impossible to circumvent on the history of the world cinema, which he wrote in reaction to the Histoire of the cinema of Maurice Bardèche and Robert Brasillach. At the time of the drafting, the world cinema is at the same time taken as an art and an industry. To carry out with method its general history of the cinema, it conceptualizes works and works on the files and the writing. It recuts the sources: documents and testimonys, which moderates the appreciation of work. Its general Histoire of the cinema very a long time marginal, because is rejected by the partisans of the history film enthusiast and the history technicist. For the film enthusiasts, his work prevents the legimisation of the cinema like Article the historians, technicists, think that the cinema is a popular product, of mass, leisures and, so not very advisable.

He is also the author of an important study on the scenario writer Georges Méliès.

He taught with the Sorbonne and IDHEC, a French school of cinema.

Its name was given to a reward of cinema: The Price Georges Sadoul.

Summary bibliography

the religion and unemployment: the crusade of charity , Office of editions, 1932
what your children read: the childish press in France, its history, its evolution, its influence, Office of editions, 1938
Mystery and Puissance of the atom , Yesterday and Today, 1947
the cinema, its art, its technique, its economy , the French Library, 1948
general History of the cinema. Volume 1. The invention of the cinema , Denoël, 1950-1975
general History of the cinema. Volume 2. Pioneers of the cinema , Denoël, 1950-1975
general History of the cinema. Volume 3. The cinema becomes an art - the pre-war period , Denoël, 1950-1975
general Histoire of the cinema. Volume 4. The cinema becomes an art - the First World War , Denoël, 1950-1975
general Histoire of the cinema. Volume 5. Dumb Art - post-war period in Europe , Denoël, 1950-1975
general History of the cinema. Volume 6. Dumb Art - Hollywood - end of the dumb man , Denoël, 1950-1975
general History of the cinema. Volume 6 (according to the initial plan). the contemporary time (1939-1954) - 1 the cinema during the war (1939-1945) , Denoël, 1946, rééd. 1954
Dictionary of the cinema , Threshold, 1965
Dictionary of the scenario writers , Threshold, 1965
History of the art of the cinema , 3^e edition, Flammarion, 1949
the French Cinema , Flammarion, 1962
History of the world cinema, the origins at our days , Flammarion, 1949

Newspaper of war , EFR, 1977
Chronic of the French cinema: 1939-1967 , UGE, 1979
Chronic Meetings I. and Talks of G.Sadoul , Denoël, 1984
Jacques Stone-block (scenario, posthumous work carried out by Roger Viry-Babel, France 3,1992

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