This week The Hollywood Reporter has a great story about Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies Jeanine Basinger. New York Times film critic and Wesleyan’s Distinguished Professor of Film Criticism, A.O. Scott puts it this way: “I took a job teaching at Wesleyan as an excuse to hang out and talk about movies with Jeanine. There’s nothing she doesn’t know.” The article focuses on Jeanine’s amazing group of former students who have gone on to extraordinary careers in the film industry — and they couldn’t get everybody! “When I started teaching at Wesleyan,” she writes, “I realized the students were fabulous — they had so much imagination, intelligence, originality,” she says. “I kept thinking to myself, ‘Why don’t these people work in the film business?’ I told them, ‘Somebody gets those jobs. Why not you?’ And I started encouraging them to become the people they have become.
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