Winter Post 1: December 20, 2008

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