Roger Manvell

Arnold Roger Manvell (born October 10, 1909 , † November 30, 1987 ) was a British film scholar and writer.

Life and activity

Manvell was educated at London University , where he earned a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. Degree.

During the Second World War , Manvell worked in the British Ministry of Information, where he worked in the film division as a film officer in the production of propaganda films . From 1945 to 1947 he worked as a research officer at the British Film Institute. During this time he conducted research into the history of British cinema and took on teaching positions at the British Film Festival in Prague (1946) and the World Film Festival in Brussels (1947).

In 1947 Manvell became the first director of the British Film Academy. He held this post for twelve years until 1959. In this position he advised the British Council and the Art Council . For the BBC, he was active as a spokesman in the home service ( Home Service ) and in the overseas service ( Overseas Service ) since the 1940s .

From 1946 to 1949 he edited the magazine Penguin Film Review and from 1950 to 1952 the yearbook The Cinema .

Manvell later worked as a teacher at various universities in Europe and North America. He also worked as a radio announcer and screenwriter.

Since 1975 Manvell has taught film history at the College of Communications at Boston University . In 1982 he received the rank of professor there.

Since the 1940s Manvell published numerous books on film history topics. His book Film , published by Penguin Books in 1944, sold more than a million copies. In addition to his film history works, Manvell wrote a series of biographies in collaboration with Heinrich Fraenkel from the late 1950s to the early 1970s about leading figures of the National Socialist dictatorship, such as Joseph Goebbels , Hermann Göring , Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Heß .

His estate is held in the University of Louisville , Kentucky .

Fonts

• Film , 1944.
• The History of the British Film, 1896-1906 , Allen & Unwin, London 1948. (with Rachael Low)
• Three British Screen Play's "Brief encounter", "Odd man out," "Scott of the Antarctic" , 1950.
• A Seat at the Cinema , 1951.
• On the Air. A Study of Broacasting in Sound and Television , 1953.
• The Crowded Air: A Study of the Problems and Potentialities of American and British Television , 1953.
• The Animated Film. With Pictures from the Film 'Animal Farm , London 1954.
• Film and the Public , 1955.
• The Technique of Film Music , 1957. (with John Huntley)
• Dr. Goebbels. His Life and Death , Simon and Shuster, New York 1960. (further editions 1961, 1968, 2006, 2010, 2013 partly as Doctor Goebbels ) (in German as Goebbels. A biography , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne and Berlin 1960 ; Reprints 1989, 1992 and 1995 by Heyne) (together with Heinrich Fraenkel )
• The Passion , 1960. (novel)
• The Living Screen. Background to the Film and Television , 1961.
• Design in Motion , 1962.
• Goering , New York, Simon and Shuster, New York 1962 (further editions 1968, 2013) (in German Göring , Verlag für Literatur und Zeitgeschehen, Hannover 1961; reprints 1964, 1983) (together with Heinrich Fraenkel)
• The Dreamers , 1963. (novel)
• The Technique of Film Animation , 1963.
• Himmler , Putnam, New York 1965. (further editions 1969, 1973, 2007, partly as Heinrich Himmler ) (in German: Himmler. Kleinbürger und Massenmörder , Ullstein, Berlin 1965) (with Heinrich Fraenkel)
• The July Plot , Bodley Head, London 1964. (further editions 1966, 1971, 2008; partly under the title The Conspirators. 20th July 1944 and under the title The Men who Tried to Kill Hitler ) (in German: Der 20 July , Ullstein, Berlin 1964; reprint 1969) (together with Heinrich Fraenkel)
• What is a film? , 1965.
• New Cinema in Europe , London 1966.
• This Age of Communication. Press, Book, Films, Radio, TV , Glasgow 1966.
• The Incomparable Crime. Mass Extermination in the Twentieth Century , 1967. (with Heinrich Fraenkel)
• The Progress in Television , 1967. (also published as TV. The Creative Experience ) (with William A. Bluem)
• Ellen Terry , 1968.
• New Cinema in the USA The Feature Film Since 1946 , 1968.
• New Cinema in Britain , 1969.
• SS and Gestapo. Rule by Terror , 1969. (Reprint 1972) (in German: Die Herrschaft der Gestapo , Moewig 1982; Reprint 1987) (together with Heinrich Fraenkel)
• The Canaris Conspiracy. The Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army , McKay, New York 1969. (Reprint 1972) (in German: Canaris. Spion im Widerstreit , 1969) (together with Heinrich Fraenkel)
• Art in Movement. New Directions in Animation , 1970. (with John Halas)
• Sarah Siddons. portrait of an Actress , London 1970.
• The German Cinema , Dent, 1971. (with Heinrich Fraenkel)
• Sarah Siddons- Portrait of an Actress , 1971.
• Shakespeare and the Film , 1971. (Reprinted 1979)
• Hess , MacGibbon & Kee Granada Publishing, London 1971.
• The History fo the British Film. 1914-1918 , 1973.
• Masterworks of the German Cinema: The Golem - Nosferatu - M -The Threepenny Opera , Harper & Row, Icon Editions, New York 1973.
• Chaplin , 1974.
• Films and the Second World War , JM Dent, London 1974.
• Love Goddesses of the Movies , 1975.
• The Trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh , 1976.
• Adolf Hitler , Grafton, Panther Books, London 1978. (Reprints 1986)
• Theater and Film: A Comparative Study of the Two Forms of Dramatic Art, and of the Problems of Adaptation of Stage Plays into Films , 1979.
• Ingmar Bergman, on Appreciation , 1980.
• Images of Madness: Portrayal of Insanity in the Feature Film , 1985. (with Michael Fleming) the dre