Jeanine Basinger
10 Ways to Win an Oscar
...and effective trends. Click Image to View Our Gallery of 10 Easy Ways to Win an Oscar According to Jeanine Basinger, the head of film studies at Wesleyan University, the biggest key...
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Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar nomination for best director a breakthrough moment
...consigned mostly to romantic comedies and biopics. "We have to celebrate Bigelow's achievement," said Jeanine Basinger, professor of film history at Wesleyan University. "If Bigelow...
"Go gay, be crippled, don't sing and dance on screen," Basinger advises. "Jimmy Cagney [who won for Yankee Doodle Dandy] is an exception to that, but he was playing a world-famous figure, so the rule really is don't sing and dance unless you're also playing a world-famous figure." Other rules to live by, Basinger says, are "keeping out of comedy," "becoming a Vietnam veteran, preferably legless," and if you're an actress, removing all makeup while playing either "a prostitute or a nun."
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Kathryn Bigelow is well positioned to become the first female Oscar winner for directing
...has tracked employment of women in the film industry. "We have to celebrate Bigelow's achievement," said Jeanine Basinger, professor of film history at Wesleyan University. "If Bigelow...
Hollywood brings epic sword-and-sandal genre
...in short leather and women with cleavage wearing snakes in their hair," said film historian and author Jeanine Basinger of Wesleyan University. "There is an audience for ancient Rome.
With New Films, CBS Charts Tough Middle Course
...to say it, but this topic tends to work much better on TV. " With the right touch, however, Ms. Basinger said she thought "Extraordinary Measures" could succeed. "The secret is making...
Jezebel (film)
...to woo back Henry Fonda, and finally the cape at the end of the film she dons when she must go to help care for Fonda. In Basinger's opinion, this was the performance at the height of...
POLL: Which Nancy Meyers movie house would you want to live in?
...writer Daphne Merkin then has to ask: Does that "softening the message" ultimately weaken her films? Jeanine Basinger, chairwoman of the film-studies department at Wesleyan...
Jeanine Basinger
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's Film Studies program into...
Is It Really 'A Wonderful Life'?
Audio for this story from Talk of the Nation will be available at approx. 6:00 p.m. ET Jeanine Basinger, chairs the film studies program at Wesleyan University, curator of the Capra...
Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Jones dies at 90
...and on-set fretting about lighting, costumes and script changes to benefit Miss Jones. Film scholar Jeanine Basinger, who specializes in the history of women in cinema, said, "One of the...
Jennifer Jones, 90; Oscar-winning actress
...and on-set fretting about lighting, costumes and script changes to benefit Ms. Jones. Film scholar Jeanine Basinger, who specializes in the history of women in cinema, said, "One of the...
Obituary: Jennifer Jones/Oscar-winning Hollywood actress
...and on-set fretting about lighting, costumes and script changes to benefit Ms. Jones. Film scholar Jeanine Basinger, who specializes in the history of women in cinema, said, "One of the...
