#1262 - Bernard F. Dick

Bernard F. Dick is professor emeritus of communications and English at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He holds a doctorate in classics from Fordham University and is the author of numerous film books including Anatomy of Film, Hal Wallis, and That Was Entertainment. Bernard came on to discuss his book "The Screen Is Red: Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War" which portrays Hollywood's ambivalence toward the former Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. In the 1930s, communism combated its alter ego, fascism, yet both threatened to undermine the capitalist system, the movie industry's foundational core value. Hollywood portrayed fascism as the greater threat and communism as an aberration embraced by young idealists unaware of its dark side.