Jeanine Basinger Biography

Jeanine Basinger (born 3 February 1936) is Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and Founder and Curator of the Cinema Archives at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. The Cinema Archives, which she founded, includes the papers of Frank Capra, Ingrid Bergman, Elia Kazan, Gene Tierney, Martin Scorsese, and Federico Fellini. She is also a Trustee of the American Film Institute (which awarded her a Doctorate of Humane Letters June 7, 2006), a member of the Steering Committee of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation, and one of the Board of Advisors for the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers. She has appeared in numerous documentaries, and also in a dramatic role in A Better Way to Die (2000). Basinger is credited with having built Wesleyan into one of the top film schools in the country. A disproportionate amount of notable Hollywood figures have been taught by Basinger. Former students include, but are not limited to: Joss Whedon, Michael Bay, Paul Weitz, Laurence Mark, Paul Schiff, Alex Kurtzman, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Toby Emmerich, Nicholas Meyer, Marc Shmuger, Rick Nicita, Brad Fuller, Dana Delany, Stephen Schiff, Rodger Grossman, Toni Ross, Bradley Whitford, Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Liz Garcia, Marc Longenecker, Jon Turteltaub, Jeffrey Lane, Zak Penn, Jeremy Arnold and Miguel Arteta. In 2006 she participated in a documentary Wanderlust with many other well known people.

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