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Jeanine Basinger is the chair of film studies at Wesleyan University and the curator of the cinema archives there. She has written nine other books on film, including A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women 1930–1960; Silent Stars, winner of the William K. Everson Award for Film History; The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre; and American Cinema: 100 Years of Filmmaking, the companion book for a ten-part PBS series. She lives with her husband in Middletown, Connecticut.

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I Do and I Don't
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Written by Jeanine Basinger

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $30.00

From one of our leading film historians and interpreters: a brilliantly researched, irresistibly witty, delightfully illustrated examination of “the marriage movie”; what it is (or isn’t) and what it has to tell us about the movies—and ourselves.

As long as there have been feature movies there have been marriage movies, and yet... Read more >

I Do and I Don't
A History of Marriage in the Movies
Written by Jeanine Basinger

Format: eBook, 432 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $15.99

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Silent Stars

Written by Jeanine Basinger

Format: eBook, 512 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 17, 2012
Price: $16.99

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The Star Machine

Written by Jeanine Basinger

Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2009
Price: $18.95

From one of our leading film authorities, a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about the golden age of movies, full of Hollywood lore, anecdotes, and analysis.

Jeanine Basinger gives us an immensely entertaining look into the “star machine,” examining how, at the height of the studio system, from... Read more >

The Star Machine

Written by Jeanine Basinger

Format: eBook, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.99

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