The Louise Brooks Society blog was named one of the best silent movie blogs by Feedspot, a leading blog directory. As a matter of fact, the Louise Brooks Society blog placed fourth, following only Movies Silently, Silent-ology, and Silent London Blog. The complete list of deserving blogs can be found HERE.
The Louise Brooks Society has been bloggingabout the actress, silent film, and the Jazz Age, as well as fashion, dance, books, music, art, Hollywood and other topics related to the one-and-only Lulu for a long time. Actually, the Louise Brooks Society started blogging in 2002, first on LiveJournal and then on Blogger beginning in 2009. Between the two forums, there are more than 3,740 posts, most all of which now reside on the LBS blog at louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com. The LBS blog has been visited / read more than 2 million times. It is a longtime member of various affiliations, including the CMBA (Classic Movie Blog Association), CMH (Classic Movie Hub), and LAMB (Large Association of Movie Blogs). In 2018, the CMBA profiled the LBS, and in 2023, the CMH named the LBS one of the 5 best early film blogs.
The Louise Brooks Society blog has received it fair share of attention, and not just from other bloggers. For example, the noted cultural critic Greil Marcus gave the LBS blog a shout out when he mentioned a 2012 post in one of his 2015 columns on BarnesandNobleReview. (This write-up by Marcus was also included in his 2022 book, More Real Life Rock: The Wilderness Years 2014-2021, from Yale University Press.)
The LBS blog is featured on the authoritative WeimarCinema.org website. And a book review on the LBS blog was mentioned on the Columbia University Press website, while another was mentioned on the BearManor Media website (a distinguished publisher of books on entertainment). Individual LBS blog posts have been cited in a Ph.D dissertation from Concordia University in Montreal, an article on Shelf Awareness (a trade journal), on a page of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum, and elsewhere.
One of the nicest compliments the Louise Brooks Society has ever received was directed at its blog. It came from Cliff Aliperti on his excellent Immortal Ephemera website. Referencing his own site, Cliff stated, “The site is going slowly, I’m trying to make the blog grow quicker than the main site by posting interesting bits of information I unearth and unusual collectibles I come across (full disclosure: the model for the blog is the excellent Louise Brooks Society blog over at pandorasbox.com, the best fan site around that I’m aware of. I wish I could update mine this often.)”
The Louise Brooks Society is a cinephilac blog. It is written on a regular basis by Thomas Gladysz, with occasional guest contributors.
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