Gwendolyn Audrey Foster facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Born	1960 (age 64–65) United States
Education	Rutgers University (B.A. English, 1983) University of Nebraska at Lincoln (M.A., 1992; Ph.D., 1995) Douglass College
Occupation	Scholar, filmmaker
Known for	Women Who Made the Movies
Partner(s)	Wheeler Winston Dixon
Awards	1998 AAUW Emerging Scholar 2004 College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is a talented filmmaker, artist, and author. She used to be a special professor of Film Studies. Her work often looks at topics like gender, different races, protecting the environment, and how social groups live.

From 1999 to 2014, she helped edit a magazine called Quarterly Review of Film and Video. In 2016, she became a special English professor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She retired early in 2020.

Learning and Degrees

Gwendolyn Foster studied English at Douglass College, which is part of Rutgers University. She earned her first degree there in 1983.

Later, she continued her studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She earned her master's degree in 1992. Then, she completed her doctorate degree in English in 1995.

Her Work and Career

Gwendolyn Foster writes a lot about movies and related topics. She explores ideas like how women and nature are connected. She also writes about unique, independent films and how different cultures are shown in movies.

She has made many films herself. One famous film is the 1991 documentary Women Who Made the Movies. She also made a feature film called Squatters in 1994.

More recently, she has created many short films. These include the Gaia Triptych series from 2016. These short films are about nature and sometimes have a spooky feel. Some titles are Waste, Not and Want Not.

Other short films by Foster include Earth TV, Echo and Narcissus, and Tenderness. She has made many more creative films.

Writing and Books

Foster writes for many different journals. These include Choice and Senses of Cinema. She also writes for Film International and Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

She writes a lot about how movies are made and what they mean. She also works on art projects that involve setting up displays.

Gwendolyn Foster has also written popular books with Wheeler Winston Dixon. They wrote A Short History of Film, which is a textbook about movie history.

They also edit book series for publishers. One series is "Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture." Another is "New Perspectives on World Cinema Series," which looks at movies from around the world.

Where Her Films Have Been Shown

Gwendolyn Foster's films have been shown in many places. They have been screened at film festivals like Outfest LA and the Bi+ Arts Festival.

Her films have also been shown in museums. These include The Nederlands Filmmuseum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. They have been seen in countries like India, Spain, and Korea.

Her work has even been shown at famous places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has had screenings at universities and art spaces worldwide.

In 2018, an art gallery in Poland showed many of her new video works. She also presented her videos in Texas and Amsterdam that year. Her film Self Portrait [Détournement] was shown in New York.

Her films were also shown on TV in the Netherlands. In 2017, she had a special show at The Museum of The Future in Berlin, Germany.

Personal Life

Gwendolyn Foster's partner is Wheeler Winston Dixon. They often work together on books and films.

Books She Has Written

Here are some of the books Gwendolyn Foster has written or helped write:

• Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film (2016)
• Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse (2014)
• 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (2011) - co-written with Wheeler Winston Dixon
• A Short History of Film (2008, 3rd Edition 2018) - co-written with Wheeler Winston Dixon
• Class-Passing: Performing Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture (2005)
• Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions (2003)
• Experimental Cinema: the Film Reader (2002) - co-edited with Wheeler Winston Dixon
• Troping the Body: Etiquette, Conduct and Dialogic Performance (2000)
• Captive Bodies: Postcolonialism in the Cinema (1999)
• Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity (1997)
• Women Film Directors: An International Bio-Critical Dictionary (1995)
• Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman (2003)

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