American Icons: The Wizard of Oz
Follow the yellow brick road through America’s favorite story and discover places in the land of Oz more wonderful, and weirder, than you ever imagined.It's been over seventy years since movie...
View ArticleMarriage in the Movies
Not much makes a Hollywood executive more jittery than the word "marriage." Love in the movies is about the flirtation, the exciting courtship, the comic mismatch, the embarrassing one-night stand, the...
View ArticleAmerican Icons: The Wizard of Oz
Follow the yellow brick road through America’s favorite story and discover places in the land of Oz more wonderful, and weirder, than you ever imagined.It's been over seventy years since movie...
View ArticleLike No Other
The film scholar and Wizard of Oz expert Jeanine Basinger tells Kurt why Oz is so different from other well-known fantasy universes like Narnia or Middle Earth.
View ArticleHollywood’s Star Machine
From the 1930s to the 1950s, Hollywood studios worked hard to create their stars. Wesleyan film studies professor Jeanine Basinger explains how the "star machine" selected, groomed, and maintained...
View ArticleEnd of War: War Culture
What can representations of war on stage, in film and in popular culture tell us about combat? Denis O'Hare, actor and co-writer of An Iliad, Jeanine Basinger, chair of the film studies department at...
View ArticleThe Legacy and Lasting Influence of 'Casablanca,' 70 Years Later
On November 26, 1942, in the midst of World War II, a film called "Casablanca" premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City. Warner Brothers actually rushed the release of the film, as the...
View ArticlePreview: The Film Professor Who Taught the Creators of 'Beasts of the...
Jeanine Basinger is a somewhat of a legend at Wesleyan University, where she's a professor of film studies. Her protégés include Joss Whedon, creator of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer,"...
View ArticleFrom Nick and Norah to Coach and Tami: A History of Marriage Onscreen
When author and Wesleyan University professor of film studies Jeanine Basinger decided to write a history of marriage at the movies, she remembered that her friends had been so skeptical of her own,...
View ArticleMarriage and the Movies
Film historian Jeanine Basinger discusses the history of marriages in movies and what they tell us about ourselves. In I Do and I Don’t she examines the many ways Hollywood has approached the subject,...
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American Icons: The Wizard of Oz
This is America’s dreamland.It's been 78 years since movie audiences first watched “The Wizard of Oz.” Meet the original man behind the curtain, L. Frank Baum, who had all the vision of Walt Disney,...
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