Chris Yogerst

Chris Yogerst, a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is an associate professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His most recent book is The Warner Brothers (2023). Chris is also the author of From the Headlines to Hollywood: The Birth and Boom of Warner Bros. (2016) and Hollywood Hates Hitler! Jew-Baiting, Anti-Nazism, and the Senate Investigation into Warmongering in Motion Pictures (2020). His writing can be found in The Hollywood Reporter, The Washington Post, The Journal of American Culture, and Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Find him on Twitter @chrisyogerst as well as Instagram and Facebook @cyogerst.

Articles

Endless Culture Wars: On Kliph Nesteroff’s “Outrageous”
Chris Yogerst reviews Kliph Nesteroff’s book, “Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars.”
Chris YogerstDec 1, 2023
A Man Without a Country: On Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America”
Chris Yogerst reviews Scott Eyman’s “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided.”
Chris YogerstOct 26, 2023
Mobsters, Union Leaders, and Studio Moguls: The Infamous 1945–46 Warner Brothers Strikes
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book “The Warner Brothers,” Chris Yogerst elucidates the history of the big Hollywood strikes of the 1940s.
Chris YogerstAug 22, 2023
- Film
- History
Hollywood on Hollywood: On Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson’s Oral History “Hollywood”
Chris Yogerst reviews Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson’s “Hollywood: The Oral History.”
Chris YogerstDec 5, 2022
Victim of His Own Celebrity: On Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks”
Chris Yogerst reviews Richard Schickel’s “The Famous Mr. Fairbanks: A Story of Celebrity.”
Chris YogerstAug 7, 2022
The Dark Side of the New Hollywood: On Jon Lewis’s “Road Trip to Nowhere”
Chris Yogerst reviews Jon Lewis’s book about Hollywood in the ’60s and ’70s, “Road Trip to Nowhere.”
Chris YogerstJul 30, 2022
- Film
Buster Keaton: A Timeless Comedian
Two new biographies of “Old Stone Face” and his remarkable cinematic career.
Chris YogerstMar 25, 2022
- Film
The Oskar Schindler of Hollywood
A new documentary about Carl Laemmle explores the movie mogul’s humanitarian accomplishments.
Chris YogerstOct 26, 2021
- Film
Pseudo-Events in the 21st Century
Daniel Boorstin’s 1962 book “The Image” brilliantly prefigured our world of digital media and news as entertainment.
Chris YogerstSep 2, 2021
- Politics
Billy Wilder’s “Amerikanismus”
A newly translated collection of the great director’s early German journalism.
Chris YogerstApr 28, 2021
- Film
A Man and His Persona: On “Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise”
A revealing biography of an iconic Hollywood star.
Chris YogerstJan 3, 2021
- Biography & Autobiography
- Film
We Had Witnessed an Exhibition: On Thomas Doherty’s “Little Lindy Is Kidnapped”
Chris Yogerst reviews Thomas Doherty’s cultural history of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
Chris YogerstSep 24, 2020
- Cultural Studies
- History
When the US Government Went After Anti-Nazi Hollywood
LARB presents an excerpt from “Hollywood Hates Hitler! ” by Chris Yogerst.
Chris YogerstJul 27, 2020
Forgotten Movie Royalty
A new biography of early cinema’s first family, the Costellos.
Chris YogerstJun 12, 2020
A Respite for Refugees: The Sun and Her Stars
Chris Yogerst reviews Donna Rifkind's "The Sun and Her Stars," a story of Jewish émigrés and the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Chris YogerstMar 31, 2020
Sin, Glamour, and Photography in Hollywood’s Golden Age: On Two Books by Mark A. Vieira
Chris Yogerst praises two books by Mark A. Vieira that document pre-Code Hollywood history through vivid pictures and astute storytelling.
Chris YogerstMar 14, 2020