Jeanine Basinger

Jeanine Basinger is the founder of the department of film studies at Wesleyan University and the curator of the cinema archives there. She has written eleven books on film, including I Do and I Don’t; The Star Machine, winner of the Theatre Library Association Award; A Woman’s View; Silent Stars, winner of the William K. Everson Film History Award; Anthony Mann; The World War II Combat Film; and American Cinema: One Hundred Years of Filmmaking.

Five Things I've Learned About

The Two Hollywoods

View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated film historians and writers Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about the people and values that shaped the movie business – and all they uncovered while compiling the comprehensive oral history of Hollywood.

Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson

Five Things I've Learned About

The Two Hollywoods

View the archive of this 90-minute class from celebrated film historians and writers Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson and discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about the people and values that shaped the movie business – and all they uncovered while compiling the comprehensive oral history of Hollywood.

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