Francis Lacassin
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Francis Lacassin, (November 18 1931 in Saint-Jean-de-Valériscle (Gard), France - August 12, 2008, Paris), was a French journalist, publisher, writer, screenwriter and essayist.
From 1964 onwards he contributed to the literary magazine Bizarre, published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert. He wrote on fantastic literature and detective fiction for Magazine Littéraire, and contributed to l'Express and Point.
He was also the literary advisor for Christian Bourgois's 10/18 series.
Connoisseur of popular culture, he was instrumental in giving comic books (already more respectfully known as bandes dessinées in France), its respectability as the ninth art and was a contributor to the film magazine Midi Minuit Fantastique and a co-screenwriter to Franju's Judex.
He prepared and prefaced many reference works, author profiles and thematic series, most notably at Éditions Robert Laffont where he supervised the series « Bouquins » since 1982 including Eugène Sue, Gustave Le Rouge, Maurice Leblanc, Fantômas, Lovecraft and Jack London.
He was nicknamed the "man of a thousand prefaces".
Quelques ouvrages
- Sur les chemins qui marchent (mémoires de l'auteur), éd. du Rocher, 2006
- Tarzan ou le Chevalier crispé, 10/18. L'ouvrage comprend en annexe un lexique de la langue grand-singe.
- Pour un neuvième art : la bande dessinée
- Pour Une Contre Histoire Du Cinéma
- Sous le masque de Léo Malet : Nestor Burma (éd. Encrage)
- Alfred Machin : de la jungle à l'écran, Paris, Dreamland, 2001, 223 p.
- Louis Feuillade, Anthologie du cinéma, 1966
- La société des cinéromans (1918-1930)
Articles connexes
- Critique du livre "Famille-sans-nom" par F. Lacassin (livre de Jules Verne)
- Préface du livre "Les Naufragés du « Jonathan »" par F. Lacassin, livre de Jules Verne, adapté par son fils, Michel Verne
