Roger Manvell

Infobox Actor
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name = Roger Manvell
birthdate = October 10, 1909
location = London, England
deathdate = November 30, 1987
deathplace = Boston, Massachusetts

Roger Manvell was born in England on October 10, 1909 and died on November 30, 1987. The co-founder and first director of the British Film Academy (a post he filled for over a decade) was also the author of many books on films and film-making, and authored and co-authored (with Heinrich Fraenkel) many books on Nazi Germany, including biographies of Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring. During World War II he worked in the Ministry of Information, creating propaganda films for the British government. In his long and distinguished career he also lectured in universities in as many as forty countries in three continents (America, Europe and the Middle East), and made a name for himself as a broadcaster and screen writer. He joined the Boston University faculty in 1975 teaching film history classes at the College of Communications. Manvell was named University Professor in 1982.

Books

Some books authored or co-authored by Roger Manvell...

Novels

Dreamers, The Passion, The

On the arts (film/television/theatre)

A Seat at the Cinema Age of Communication: Press, Books, Films, Radio, TV Animated Film: With Pictures from the Film 'Animal Farm' Art in Movement: New Directions in Animation Cinema, The (annual Pelican film review) Design in motion Experiment in the Film Film and The Public (annual Pelican film review) German Cinema, The History of the British Film Images of Madness: Portrayal of Insanity in the Feature Film International Encyclopedia of Film, The Living Screen: Background to the Film and Television Love Goddesses of the Movies Masterworks of the German Cinema: The Golem - Nosferatu - M -The Threepenny Opera New Cinema in Britain New Cinema in Europe New cinema in the U.S.A: The feature film since 1946 On the air: A study of broadcasting in sound and television Penguin Film Review, The (1946-1949) Progress in Television Selected Comedies: Elizabeth Inchbald Shakespeare and the Film Technique of Film Animation, The Technique of Film Music, The Theatre and Film: A Comparative Study of the Two Forms of Dramatic Art and of the Problems of Adaptation of Stage Plays into Films This Age of Communication Three British screen plays: "Brief encounter","Odd man out," "Scott of the Antarctic" What is Film?

On Nazi Germany

Canaris Conspiracy, The Conspirators, The Doctor Goebbels: His Life & Death Films and the Second World War Gestapo Göring Hess Heinrich Himmler: The SS, Gestapo, His Life and Career Heinrich Himmler Hitler: The Man and The Myth Hundred Days to Hitler, The Incomparable Crime, The: Mass Extermination in the Twentieth Century July Plot, The SS & Gestapo: Rule of Terror

Biography

Chaplin Elizabeth Inchbald: England's Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London - A Biographical Study Ellen Terry Ingmar Bergman, an Appreciation Sarah Siddons Trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, The