Queens of Animation, A History of the Movie Musical, Lee Grant, Life of Harriet Tubman

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Nov 27, 2019

Nathalia Holt joins us to discuss her book, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History.

Film historian, founder of the Department of Film Studies at Wesleyan University and the curator of the Wesleyan cinema archives, Jeanine Basinger, joins us to discuss her new book, The Movie Musical!

Lee Grant joins us to discuss the ongoing series at Film Forum that looks at her entire body of work, “LEE GRANT: Actor. Filmmaker.” It runs through February 12.

New York Public Radio's director of archives, Andy Lanset, joins us for this week’s installment of our ongoing series, “Andy in the Archives.”

Erica Armstrong Dunbar joins us to discuss her new book, She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman.

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