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Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom
by Brian Chidester and Dominic Priore
review by Kristin Lawler, College of Mount Saint Vincent, New York
listed in: Music
Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968
by Anthony Macías
review by Darius V. Echeverría, Rutgers University
listed in: Native American, Latin America
The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Communication
by Daniel Herwitz
review by Erik M. Walker, Quincy College, Plymouth, Massachusetts
listed in: Cinema
America’s Ocean Wilderness: A Cultural History of Twentieth-Century Exploration
by Gary Kroll
review by Charles Mitchell, Elmira College
listed in: Environs
Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, The Religious Right, and the Culture Wars
by Thomas R. Lindlof
review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
listed in: Cinema
The Many Faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: Politics, Parody and the Battle over Borat
by Robert A. Saunders
review by Perin Emine Gurel, Yale University
listed in: Cinema
Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail Order Shopping
by Robin Cherry
review by Crystal Z. Campbell, University of California-San Diego
listed in: Material Culture
Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television and Politics
by Gordon B. Arnold
review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
listed in: Cinema, Television
Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History
edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor
review by David R. Buck, Thiel College
listed in: War, Cinema
Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader by Troy Jackson
review by William Sturkey, Ohio State University
listed in: African American, Social Custom
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of The Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia.
review by Timothy J. O’Brien, University of Houston
listed in: Music, Performing Arts
Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
by Laura Schapiro
review by Michelle Moravec, Rosemont College, Pennsylvania
listed in: Gender, Material Culture
Rebels Wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humoristsby Iain Ellis
review by Justin Patch, University of Texas, Austin
listed in: Music, Social Custom
True West: An Illustrated Guide to the Heyday of the Western
by Michael Barson
review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
listed in: Television, Cinema
Black Feminism in Contemporary Dramaby Lisa M. Anderson
review by Elizabeth Johnson, Governors State University, Illinois
listed in: African American, Performing Arts
Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalismby Peter C. Myers
review by Debbie Clare Olson, Oklahoma State University
listed in: African American, Social Custom
Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and Historyedited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor
review by Ron Briley, reprinted by permission of History News Network at http://hnn.us/
listed in: War, Cinema
