Georges Sadoul

Georges Sadoul (4 February 1904 – 13 October 1967) was a French journalist and cinema writer.[1]

Georges Sadoul (on the left), French government official Dieterle, Fourre Cormeray and director Jean Grémillon (on the right) at Okęcie airport in Warsaw, 1947.

Once a surrealist, he became a communist in 1932. He was a journalist of the Lettres Françaises.[2]

He is the author of l'Histoire générale du cinéma, a comprehensive work on world cinema. He produced an important work on the filmmaker Georges Méliès.

Sadoul was born in Nancy. He was trained at the Sorbonne and the IDHEC, a French cinema school.

He is known for writing encyclopedias of film and filmmakers, many of which have been translated into English.

He died in Paris at the age of sixty-three.[3]

Bibliography
  • Histoire générale du cinéma. Tome 1. L'invention du cinéma (1832–1897), Denoël, 1946
  • Histoire générale du cinéma. Tome 2. Les pionniers du cinéma, Denoël, 1950–1975
  • Histoire générale du cinéma. Tome 3. Le cinéma devient un art – L'avant-guerre, Denoël, 1950–1975
  • Histoire générale du cinéma. Tome 4. Le cinéma devient un art – La première guerre mondiale, Denoël, 1950–1975
  • Histoire générale du cinéma. Tome 5. L'Art muet – L'après-guerre en Europe, Denoël, 1950–1975
  • Histoire générale du cinéma. Tome 6. L'Art muet – Hollywood – La fin du muet, Denoël, 1950–1975
  • Histoire générale du cinéma. Tome 6 (according to the initial outline). L'époque contemporaine (1939-1954) – 1/Le cinéma pendant la guerre (1939–1945), Denoël, 1946, rééd. 1954
  • Dictionnaire du cinéma, 1965
  • Dictionnaire des cinéastes, 1965
  • Histoire de l'art du cinéma, 3e édition, Flammarion, 1949
  • le Cinéma français, Flammarion, 1962
  • Histoire du cinéma mondial, des origines à nos jours, Flammarion, 1949
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References
  1. Jean-Noël Lafargue, Entre la plèbe et l'élite : les ambitions contraires de la bande dessinée, édition Atelier Perrousseaux, 2012, p. 67-71 ISBN 978-2-911220-42-5
  2. Georges Sadoul rédacteur en chef de Mon Camarade
  3. Biographie partielle
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