She served as advisor to Martin Scorsese’s film foundation project, The Story of Movies co-produced and American Masters episode on Clint Eastwood, and was head consultant on the PBS special “American Cinema: 100 year of Filmmaking” for which she also wrote the companion book. Professor Basinger is a trustee of the National Board of Review, a trustee emeritus of the American Film Institute, and a former member of the Board of Advisors of the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers. Names were changed, teeth capped, hair cut, bodies shaped. Stars were assigned a type: star, character, or supporting, and then placed in movies that fit their type. Her new book, also to be published by Knopf is in the works. The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger tells the story of how Hollywood movie studios produced stars from the 1930s through the 1950s by running them through a machine of sorts. She is the author of numerous articles and book reviews in such publications as The New York Times, American Film, Film Quarterly, and Opera News, as well as ten books on film including A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-1960 The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre, and Anthony Mann: A Critical Study. Everson Prize, and her most recent book, The Star Machine, published by Knopf, 2007 won the Theatre Library Association Award. Her book, Silent Stars, won the National Board of Review’s William K. Jeanine Basinger is the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, founder and curator of the Wesleyan Cinema Archives, Chair of the Film Studies Department, and a 1996 recipient of Wesleyan’s Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
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