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WESLEYAN
FILM CHAIR
JEANINE BASINGER
TO
JOIN
THE
NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW
OF
MOTION PICTURES
BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
New
York, NY – February 11, 2005 –
Wesleyan University Film Studies Chair
Jeanine Basinger has been named to the
board of directors of the National Board
of Review of Motion Pictures. She joins
the New York-based film organization as
it enters its 96th year of supporting
excellence and free expression in film.
Basinger is also the Corwin-Fuller
Professor of Film Studies and American
Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown,
Connecticut, as well as1996 winner of
Wesleyan's Binswanger Prize for Excellence
in Teaching.
Author of many articles about
film that have appeared in publications
such as the New York Times Magazine,
American Film, and Film Comment
, she has written nine books on film,
including The World War II Combat
Film: Anatomy Of a Genre ; which
has been adopted in study courses around
the country; Anthony Mann: A Critical
Study; The It's A Wonderful Life Book;
and A Woman's View: How Hollywood
Spoke To Women 1930 - 1960. She is
also a trustee emeritus of The American
Film Institute. Basinger's book,
American Cinema: 100 Years Of Filmmaking,
was the companion book for a 10-part
PBS television series that aired in January
1995.
Last spring Basinger served as
moderator of the NBR's educational film
seminar, “Women Directors: How to Hack
It in Hollywood,” and in the fall of 2003
she participated as a panelist in the
NBR's “Strange Loves: Terry Southern's
Affair with the Movies.” In April she
will moderate an NBR seminar exploring
the art of screenwriting.
“We are thrilled to welcome Jeanine to
our board of directors,” commented NBR
President Annie Schulhof, “She will bring
a wonderful blend of film history acumen,
educational scope, and academic insight.”
The National Board of Review, with no commercial
ties to the industry, was founded in 1909
to combat censorship and celebrate film
as both art and entertainment. The
not-for-profit organization screens over
300 films per year and honors the very best
in a variety of categories of film, direction,
and performance. In addition,
the NBR works to endow scholarships for
film students and underwrite educational
film programs.
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