Jeanine Basinger (born 3 February 1936, Ravenden, Arkansas) is an American film historian who retired in 2020 as the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, and Founder and Curator of The Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
Books in order of publication:
The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre (1985, 2003)
Anthony Mann: A Critical Study
The It’s a Wonderful Life Book
Shirley Temple (1975)
Lana Turner (1976)
Gene Kelly (1976)
A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930-1960 (1993)
American Cinema: 100 Years of Filmmaking (companion book for a PBS series).
Silent Stars (1999)
The Star Machine, Alfred A. Knopf (2007)
I Do and I Don’t: A History of Marriage in the Movies (2013)
The Movie Musical! (2019)
Hollywood: The Oral History – 2022
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