Bernard F Dick

Biographic Data

ID680266
NAMEBernard F Dick
GIVEN NAMESBernard F
FAMILY NAMEDick
SIGNATUREDICK B F
AFFILIATIONSFairleigh Dickinson University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS12
AUTHOR COUNT64
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System

    Open AccessBernard F DickARTICLEJournal of American History2025

  • Contested Ground: The Tunnel and the Struggle over Television News in Cold War America

    Open AccessBernard F DickARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    On December 10, 1962, Nbc aired a ninety-minute documentary, The Tunnel, about three West Berlin students who spearheaded the digging of a tunnel under the Berlin Wall through which twenty-one adults and five children from communist East Berlin crawled to freedom in the West. The producer was the innovative Reuven Frank, who created a unique kind of television news with The Huntley-Brinkley Report in 1956, anchored not by one newscaster but by th…

  • Writing for Hire: Unions, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue by Catherine L. Fisk

    Bernard F DickARTICLELabor Studies in Working-Class…2018

    In her persuasively argued study, Catherine L. Fisk examines the differences in authorship across advertising, radio, television, and film. In advertising, acknowledged as a learned profession, the copywriter is nameless. What matters are the client’s interests, not the copywriter’s identity. As the agencies created radio programming in the 1930s and 1940s for soaps and dramatic programs, the writer emerged as an employee who deserved to be credi…

  • Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

    Bernard F DickARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    Charles Dickens would have agreed. The 1940s were the best and worst of times, a decade that witnessed a world war, a genocide, and the creation of a weapon of mass destruction. It was also, as George Hutchinson argues in Facing the Abyss, a dazzling work of cultural history, “the most intensely literary decade in American history, perhaps in world history” (p. 16). Americans were flocking to public libraries, and those who could not wait to read…

  • Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays

    Bernard F DickARTICLEWorld Literature Today2017

    history. As he parses through ruin, “looking for things rich and strange,” he admits that he rarely knows what he is looking for. Even when he discovers certain verities, he interrogates himself, wondering how much certainty he wants in what he seeks. Keith Garebian Mississauga, Canada Cynthia Ozick. Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2016. 211 pages. This slender but dazzling collection of …

  • Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford

    Bernard F DickARTICLEWorld Literature Today2016

    108 WLT MAY–AUGUST 2016 US Southwest, a literature that “negotiates between Anglo society and the Mexican community” in search of its own identity. A key component of this type of literature is that it bridges frontiers because writers and readers are continuously crossing over political, social, and cultural boundaries in search of a community of their own. Bonazzi comments that in “these narratives of otherness, we begin to hear the emerging ch…

  • Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut

    Bernard F DickARTICLEWorld Literature Today2015

    of anything good you could achieve in life. Losing before you start to play, accepting whatever comes.” And Marian fulfills the description her friend, Lorena, makes about herself: “Marian, there are people who simply fuse with the landscape that belongs to them. People who inhabit the scenes that tourists take a glance at, and who give them the advice they need. People who show up in the photos of others, and come to be part of the description o…

  • The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing

    Bernard F DickARTICLEWorld Literature Today2014

    Matthew Carl Strecher The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami University of Minnesota Press This guide clearly synthesizes the inner world enshrining Haruki Murakami’s characters and intimately traverses its collective soul. By charting this otherworldly universe, Matthew Carl Strecher makes palpable for the reader a bizarre literary landscape where the metaphysical and the tangible often collide. In so doing, he places Murakami onstage with the …

  • To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary NonfictionPortrait Inside My Head: Essays

    Bernard F DickARTICLEWorld Literature Today2013

    Chapter 1 offers a reading of Gao Xingjian’s play Taowang (Escape), commissioned by the American Theatre Group. Chapter 2, possibly the best chapter of the book, turns to Ha Jin, an American counterpart to Gao in the sense that he writes in the language of his adopted country in the post-Tiananmen era and his literary accomplishments have been broadly recognized in the adopted nation. Chapter 3 discusses Annie Wang, who, like Gao, receives an amb…

  • Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

    Bernard F DickARTICLEWorld Literature Today2012

    SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2012 75 Rachel Polonsky Molotov’s Magic Lantern Farrar, Straus & Giroux Upon returning to Moscow, Polonsky discovers the forgotten library of the ruthless Soviet politician Vyacheslav Molotov. This launches a journey across Russia to visit the landscapes found in his collection. Polonsky weaves politics, history, and culture in this tribute to Russian literature. Of Gentle Wolves Martin Woodside, ed. and tr. Calypso Editions In …

  • Foreign Bodies by Cynthia Ozick (review)

    Bernard F DickARTICLEWorld Literature Today2011

    fourmini-Gospels, wherethesame story istold, repeating themaindifficulties confronting thesettlement andultimately leading toitsdemise, whileaddingnewfacts eachtime. In theend,as we knowwell fromnineteenthand twentiethcentury history, theclashbetween Utopias - be theyanarchist orcommunist - and humannature always endswith similar results. Ifthereaderwonders , Whyremind us ofthis today?, thistimeless novelserves as a satiric warning againstfalsehe…

  • The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons

    Bernard F DickARTICLEJournal of American History2006

    Journal Article The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons Get access The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons. By Barbas Samantha. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. viii, 417 pp. $29.95, isbn0-520-24213-0.) Bernard F. Dick Bernard F. Dick Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityTeaneck, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume …

  • City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures

    Steven J Ro, Steven J Ross et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures. By Bernard R. Dick. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. xiv, 249 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8131-2016-0.) Get access Steven J. Ross Steven J. Ross University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1637–1638, https://do…

  • The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939

    Bernard F Dick, Ruth VaseyARTICLEJournal of American History1998Cited by: 10

    Journal Article The World according to Hollywood, 1918–1939. By Ruth Vasey. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. xvi, 299 pp. Cloth, $54.00, ISBN 0-299-15190-5. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-299-15194-8.) Get access Bernard F. Dick Bernard F. Dick Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Page 1554, http…

  • Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema

    Bernard F Dick, Krin GabbardARTICLEJournal of American History1997

    Journal Article Jammin ' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema. By Krin Gabbard. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xii, 350 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-226-27788-7. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-226-27789-5.) Get access Bernard F. Dick Bernard F. Dick Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Page…

  • The Cold War Romance of Lillian Hellman and John Melby

    Bernard F Dick, Robert P NewmanARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article The Cold War Romance of Lillian Hellman and John Melby. By Robert P. Newman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xvi + 375 pp. $24.95.) Get access Bernard F. Dick Bernard F. Dick Fairleigh Dickinson University Teaneck, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 354–355, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078764 Publ…

  • Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten

    Robert Sklar, Bernard F DickARTICLEJournal of American History1990Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. By Bernard F. Dick. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989. viii + 264 pp. $27.00.) Get access Robert Sklar Robert Sklar New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1324–1325, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936707 Published: 01 March 1990

  • On Certain Tendencies in American Film Criticism

    Open AccessRobert P Kolker, Bernard F Dick et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1986

  • Modern Language Association Convention Los Angeles, California December, 1982

    E Ann Kaplan, Ebubekir Kaplan et al.ARTICLEQuarterly Review of Film Studies1983

  • Generically speaking

    Bernard F Dick, Bernard DickARTICLEQuarterly Review of Film Studies1978

    Stanley J. Solomon. Beyond Formula: American Film Genres. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. x + 310 pp

  • The Glory of Hera

    Bernard F Dick, Caroline Gordon et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1974

  • The Hellenism of Mary Renault

    Robert R Dyer, Robert Dyer et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1974

  • Ménandre. Tome I: La Samienne

    Bernard F Dick, Jean-Marie JacquesARTICLEThe Classical World1972

  • Myth on the Modern Stage

    Bernard F Dick, Hugh Dickinson et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1970

  • Euripides, Medea

    Bernard F Dick, Euripides Euripides et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1970