About the Louise Brooks Society Blog

The Louise Brooks Society has been blogging about the actress, silent film, and the Jazz Age, as well as fashion, dance, books, music, art, and other topics related to the one-and-only Lulu for a long time. 

 

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 3700 posts, most all of which now reside on the LBS blog at louisebrookssociety.blogspot.com. The LBS blog has been visited / read well 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.

Read the 2018 Profile of the LBS

Visit the LBS page on the Large Association of Movie Blogs

 Classic Movie Hub

 

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.)”

 

Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society

The Louise Brooks Society is a cinephilac blog. It is written on a regular basis by Thomas Gladysz, with occasional guest contributors. When you visit the LBS blog, be sure to like, share and subscribe. And, please leave a comment if you are so inclined.

The following statement is carried at the bottom of posts: “THE LEGAL STUFF: The Louise Brooks Society™ blog is authored by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society  (www.pandorasbox.com). Original contents copyright © . Further unauthorized use prohibited. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.”

It should also be mentioned that the lower right hand column of the LBS blog contains links to an archive of earlier LBS posts, links to other early film blogs, other early film websites, podcasts & message boards, as well as links to related film festivals and venues. There are a lot of great film blogs and film websites on the internet. Check ’em out!

Christy Pascoe and Thomas Gladysz at the
George Eastman House in 2006.

The Louise Brooks Society™  website, established online in 1995, operates with the consent of the Estate of Louise Brooks (Louise Brooks Heirs, LC), and have its permission to use the name and likeness of Louise Brooks. The wordmark “Louise Brooks Society”was first used in 1995, and is under common law trademark. Content original to the Louise Brooks Society website and its blog, including the term “Louise Brooks Society” is © Thomas Gladysz.