About the author
Michael D. Dwyer is an Assistant Professor of Media and Communications at Arcadia University, just outside Philadelphia PA. His research centers on nostalgia, popular memory, and cultural politics in film and pop music of the 1970s and 1980s, and is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Back to the Fifties. He teaches courses in film, writing, and media studies. He received a PhD in English, specializing in film studies, from Syracuse University in 2010.
