Background

Madsen, Roy Paul was born on July 7, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Helmer Johan and Esther Nicola (Ellingsen) Madsen.

Career

Film animator Kling Studios, Chicago, 1951—1954. Artist, 1954—1964; lecturer cinema University Southern California, 1961—1963. Film producer, lecturer Syracuse University, 1963—1966.

Professor film department telecommunications and film San Diego State University, since 1966. Media consultant Department Justice, Department State, United States Information Agency, major corporations. United States Information Agency speaker, 24 countries.

Works

Works Gallery

• book

  • The Impact of Film: How Ideas are Communicated Through Cinema and Television

    ("The first book of its kind, a comprehensive and thorough...)

  • Animated Film: Concepts, Methods, Uses

    (Book by Madsen, Roy P.)

  • Impact of Film
  • Documentary Film: The use of the film medium to interpret creatively and in social terms the life of the people as it exists in reality (Communication Arts Books)
  • Visual Anthropology Review : Reviewing the Present Hindi Cinema and Interview with Ashis Nandy; Bombay Doordarshan, Maharastrian Social Reform: Impact of Aboriginal Media on Ethnographic Film; Video Making with Brazilian Indians

• Other Work

  • Author: (books) Animated Film, Concepts, Methods, Uses, 1969, Impact of Film, 1973, Film as Communication, 1984. Editor: (book) The Artist and The Real World, 1980.

Membership

Member of American Film Institute, Cinema Circulus, International Association Film Animators, Society Motion Picture and television Engineers, University Film Association, National, International wildlife associations, The Westerners, Sierra Club.

Connections

Married Barbara Jean Tozier, September 6, 1952. Children: Sally Dawn, Mark Hunter, Kristie Sue.

father:

Helmer Johan Madsen

mother:

Esther Nicola (Ellingsen) Madsen

spouse:

Barbara Jean Tozier

children:

Sally Dawn Madsen

Mark Hunter Madsen

Kristie Sue Madsen