Roger Arnold Manvell (October 10, 1909 - November 30, 1987) was the first director of the British Film Academy (a post he filled for over a decade), 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.
Some books authored or co-authored by Roger Manvell...
Novels
Dreamers, ThePassion, The
On the arts (film/television/theatre)
A Seat at the CinemaAge of Communication: Press, Books, Films, Radio, TVAnimated Film: With Pictures from the Film 'Animal Farm'Art in Movement: New Directions in AnimationCinema, The (annual Pelican film review)Design in motionExperiment in the FilmFilm and The Public (annual Pelican film review)German Cinema, TheHistory of the British FilmImages of Madness: Portrayal of Insanity in the Feature FilmInternational Encyclopedia of Film, TheLiving Screen: Background to the Film and TelevisionLove Goddesses of the MoviesMasterworks of the German Cinema: The Golem - Nosferatu - M -The Threepenny OperaNew Cinema in BritainNew Cinema in EuropeNew cinema in the U.S.A: The feature film since 1946On the air: A study of broadcasting in sound and televisionPenguin Film Review, The (1946-1949)Progress in TelevisionSelected Comedies: Elizabeth InchbaldShakespeare and the FilmTechnique of Film Animation, TheTechnique of Film Music, TheTheatre and Film: A Comparative Study of the Two Forms of Dramatic Art and of the Problems of Adaptation of Stage Plays into FilmsThis Age of CommunicationThree British screen plays: "Brief encounter","Odd man out," "Scott of the Antarctic"What is Film?
On Nazi Germany
Canaris Conspiracy, TheConspirators, TheDoctor Goebbels: His Life & DeathFilms and the Second World WarGestapoGöringHessHeinrich Himmler: The SS, Gestapo, His Life and CareerHeinrich HimmlerHitler: The Man and The MythHundred Days to Hitler, TheIncomparable Crime, The: Mass Extermination in the Twentieth CenturyJuly Plot, TheSS & Gestapo: Rule of Terror
Biography
ChaplinElizabeth Inchbald: England's Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London - A Biographical StudyEllen TerryIngmar Bergman, an AppreciationSarah SiddonsTrial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, The