Michael D Dwyer: 2 books
Back to the Fifties
Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Hollywood studios and record companies churned out films, albums, music videos and promotional materials that sought to recapture, revise, and re-imagine the 1950s. Breaking from dominant wisdom that casts the trend as wholly defined by Ronald Reagan's politics or the...
Pompeii
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Situated in the Sarno River valley in southern Italy, on a gentle slope facing the sea to the south of Vesuvius, the Roman site of Pompeii was already famous throughout the ancient world when it was destroyed by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. Preserved under layers of ash and lava, the city...