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Book Reviews By Year

Bronner, Simon. "What the Children Said: Child Lore of South Louisiana". American Journal of Play, vol. 14, no. 3 (2022).

Lem, Ellyn. "Lynda Cohen Loigman, 2022, Matchmaker's Gift: New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN:  978-1250278098." Jewish Book Council, https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/books/search?sort_by=created

Yogerst, Chris. "James Curtis, 2022, Buster Keaton: a Filmmaker's Life: New York: Knopf. ISBN:  ‎ 978-0385354219.' Los Angeles Review of Books, March 25, 2022, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/buster-keaton-a-timeless-comedian/

Lem, Ellyn. "Sari Edelstein, 2019, Adulthood and Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age: New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0198831884." Age Culture Humanities: an Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 5, 2020. https://ageculturehumanities.org/WP/adulthood-and-other-fictions-american-literature-and-the-unmaking-of-age-by-sari-edelstein/

Liss, Barry. (2021). Book review of Corey Anton’s How Non-being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance, Fairleigh Dickinson Press. Explorations in Media Ecology, 20, 3, 71-75.

Quick, Joe. (2021). Daniel Bauer, 2018, Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past: An Ethnography of Continuity and Change in a Coastal Ecuadorian Community: Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado. ISBN: 978-1607327592 .” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, vol. 44, no. 1, Wiley Subscription Services, Inc, 2021, pp. 441–43, https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12330.

Yogerst, Chris. Review of New Deal for Artists, by Wieland Schultz-Keil. Journal of American History, vol. 108, no. 3, Dec. 2021, pp. 669–71. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaab340.

Yogerst, Chris. "Billy Wilder's 'Amerikanismus'. Review of Amerikanismus, by Billy Wilder. Los Angeles Review of Books, April 28, 2021. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/billy-wilders-amerikanismus/

Yogerst, Chris. "Scott Eyman, 2020, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise: New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN: 978-1501192111." Los Angeles Review of Books, January 3, 2021. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-man-and-his-persona-on-cary-grant-a-brilliant-disguise/

Yogerst, Chris. "Thomas Doherty, 2020, Little Lindy Is Kidnapped: New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN: 978-0231198486". Los Angeles Review of Books, September 24, 2020. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-had-witnessed-an-exhibition-on-thomas-dohertys-little-lindy-is-kidnapped/

Yogerst, Chris. Terry Chester Schulman, 2020, Film's First Family: The Untold Story of the Costellos: Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN: 978-0813178097". Los Angeles Review of Books, June 12, 2020. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/forgotten-movie-royalty/

Yogerst, Chris. "Mark Vieira, 2019, Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934): When Sin Ruled the Movies: Philadelphia: Running Press. ISBN: 978-0762466771". Los Angeles Review of Books, March 14, 2020. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sin-glamour-and-photography-in-hollywoods-golden-age-on-two-books-by-mark-a-vieira/

Yogerst, Chris. "Mark Vieira, 2013, George Hurrell's Hollywood: Glamour Portraits 1925-1992: Philadelphia: Running Press. ISBN: 978-0762466771". Los Angeles Review of Books, March 14, 2020. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sin-glamour-and-photography-in-hollywoods-golden-age-on-two-books-by-mark-a-vieira/

Yogerst, Chris. "Barbara Hall, 2019, Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Movemaking: New York: Harry N. Abrams. ISBN: ‎ 978-1419738098". Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2, 2020. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/into-the-archives-on-letters-from-hollywood/

Kasparek, JonathanReview of "Finding a New Midwestern History" by Lauck, Whitney, and Hogan, The University Bookman, Russell Kirk Center (May 2019)

Yogerst, Chris. "Richard Abel, 2015, Menus For Movieland: Newspapers and the Emergence of American Film Culture 1913-1916: Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 978-0520286771". Film & History (03603695), vol. 49, no. 1, Summer 2019, p. 90. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,uid&db=ufh&AN=138187660&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Yogerst, Chris. "Patrick McGilligan, 2019, Funny Man: Mel Brooks: New York: Harper Books. ISBN: 978-0062560995". Los Angeles Review of Books, June 12, 2019. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mel-brooks-boomers-comedian/