#NewBooks BFI #Library: Routledge Companion to British Cinema History Laraine Porter Routledge Books; Man Who Made the Movies Vanda Krefft Harper Books + Winnie Lightner: Tomboy of the Talkies Univ Press of MS

Happy to have this review of the very fine biography of Willam Fox by Vanda Krefft in the current issue of The Pennsylvania Gazette "Rags to Riches to Ruin" thepenngazette.com/rags-to-riches…

Summer books of 2018: Film ft.com/content/ee7db2… via @financialtimes

For friends in NYC, if you're available this Monday, August 19 at 12:30 PM, please join me in Bryant Park for a discussion of The Man Who Made the Movies, my biography of Twentieth Century Fox founder William Fox, with film expert Scott Adlerberg. nycgovparks.org/parks/bryant-p…

Disney Drops ‘Fox’ from Studio Names, But a Similar Scenario Almost Played Out 85 Years Ago mediaite.com/a/vcprg via @mediaite

Actually, only the name of the parent company had previously been changed to 21st Century Fox. The studio remained Twentieth Century Fox or, as they also called it, 20th Century Fox. Disney has changed the name to 20th Century Studios, dropping "Fox."

Timely viewing: Lois Weber’s extraordinary HYPOCRITES (1915), in which an enraged mob kills a medieval monk for constructing a politically incorrect statue.

To be published March 4, 2025, by Algonquin Books amazon.com/Expect-Great-T…

Kirkus calls EXPECT GREAT THINGS! "a lively history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School" and "A fresh contribution to women's history." kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/v…

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The inspiring, companionable <b>Expect Great Things!</b> celebrates the legacy of the Katharine Gibbs School for women and its tenacious scholars. bookpage.com/reviews/expect…

Writing Biography Without an Archive: On Recovering a Past Believed to Be Lost lithub.com/writing-biogra… via Literary Hub

Expect Great Things! by Vanda Krefft bookclb.com/expect-great-t… via @The Book Club

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