Jeanine Basinger author biography, plus links to books by Jeanine Basinger.

Jeanine Basinger

Jeanine Basinger is the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, founder and curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, founding Chair of the Film Studies Department, and a recipient of Wesleyan's Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching. She is the author of Silent Stars, which won the National Board of Review's William K. Everson Prize, and The Star Machine, which won the Theatre Library Association Award. She is a trustee of the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute, a member of Warner Brothers Theatre Advisory Committee at the Smithsonian Institute, and a former member of the Board of Advisors of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers. She also served as advisor to Martin Scorsese's film foundation project, The Story of Movies. She lives in Middletown, Connecticut.

Sam Wasson is the author of six previous books on Hollywood including the New York Times bestsellers Fifth Avenue, Five A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern American Woman and The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Days of Hollywood, and Fosse, the basis for the limited series Fosse/Verdon. With Jeanine Basinger, he is co-author of Hollywood: The Oral History. He lives in Los Angeles.

This biography was last updated on 11/08/2022.

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