Wesleyan University Magazine

2019 Issue 2September 17, 2019December 5, 2019

“You Will Know Them By Their Films”: Scott Higgins and Jeanine Basinger in Conversation

Jeanine Basinger is the Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies and the founder of both the Film Studies Department and the Wesleyan Cinema Archives. Scott Higgins is the Charles W. Fries Professor of…

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“There’s No Place Like Home”: Jeanine Basinger and Lea Carlson

If you want to know how the College of Film and the Moving Image functions on a day-to-day basis, talk with Lea Carlson.…

2019 Issue 2September 17, 2019

“I’ve Got My Gal”

I came to Wesleyan expressly to study with Jeanine Basinger. Many of us did. Film was our religion and initially we loved it with the reckless idiocy of first lust; it overwhelmed us, obsessed us. Jeanine remade lust in…

2019 Issue 2September 17, 2019

A Glimpse into the Ogden and Mary Louise Reid Cinema Archives

Wesleyan’s Cinema Archives began in 1981 when director Frank Capra Hon. ’81 (It’s a Wonderful Life and many other films) donated his collection of papers and memorabilia to Professor Jeanine Basinger. Notably, the archiv…

2019 Issue 2September 17, 2019December 5, 2019

A Motion Picture Event

How is it that a small school in Connecticut has so many alumni working at the highest levels of the entertainment indus…