Arnold Roger Manvell (10 October 1909 – 30 November 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 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 as a broadcaster and screenwriter. 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.
The Canaris Conspiracy: The Secret Resistance to Hitler in the German Army, by Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel, 1st Edition (1972).
The Dreamers
The Passion
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
The Cinema (annual Pelican film review)
Design in motion
Experiment in the Film
Film and The Public (annual Pelican film review)
The German Cinema
History of the British Film
Images of Madness: Portrayal of Insanity in the Feature Film
The International Encyclopedia of Film
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
The Penguin Film Review (1946-1949)
Progress in Television
Selected Comedies: Elizabeth Inchbald
Shakespeare and the Film
The Technique of Film Animation
The Technique of Film Music
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?
The Canaris Conspiracy
The Conspirators
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
The Hundred Days to Hitler
Incomparable Crime, The: Mass Extermination in the Twentieth Century
The July Plot, The
SS & Gestapo: Rule of Terror
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
The Trial of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh