Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Born November 4, 1960
Residence Lincoln, Nebraska
Nationality American
Citizenship American
Education Rutgers BA English 1983
U. Nebraska PhD 1995
Occupation Professor
Employer University of Nebraska
Awards Emerging Scholar (1998)[1]
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Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is a prolific American film scholar[1][2][3][4] with a focus on numerous areas related to cinema,[5][6][7][8][9] often with an emphasis on gender studies and women.[10][11] From 1999 through the end of 2014, she was co-editor along with Wheeler Winston Dixon of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video.[4][12][13] Critic Michael Rowin described her 2003 anthology Identity and Memory: The Films of Chantal Akerman as "impressively comprehensive."[14] She is currently a professor of English and film studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.[15]

Foster received a B.A. Degree in English from Rutgers University in 1983 and received a doctorate at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1995.[15] She teaches at the University of Nebraska. Foster has written about film-related topics such as censorship,[16] screenwriting,[15] underground film,[17] Hollywood film,[18] avant garde film,[19] history of film,[16] film criticism,[15] French filmmakers,[15] Asian cinema,[15] cultural studies, feminist and Marxist critical theory, and women directors[20] such as Grace Cunard[21] and Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.[22] Along with filmmaker and scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Foster has made films including the 1991 documentary Women Who Made The Movies[2][23] as well as the 1994 film Squatters.[24] She has published extensively in Film International, and has written many film-related books and articles.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 May 6, 1998, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, FOSTER RECEIVES EMERGING SCHOLAR AWARD, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska, has won the American Association of University Women Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars. ... The award selection is based on demonstrated excellence in teaching, a documented and active research record, evidence of mentoring female students, and evidence of a potentially significant contribution to the awardee's field of study. ...”
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The New York Times, 1991, review, Women Who Made the Movies (1991), Accessed Aug. 25, 2013, “...This documentary by filmmakers Gwendolyn Foster and Wheeler Dixon pays homage to women directors and filmmakers...”
  3. ↑ Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (2003). "Community, Loss, and Regeneration: An Interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon". Senses of Cinema (27).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 York College of Pennsylvania, Literature/Film Association Annual Conference, October 2012, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Conference, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...keynote speakers ... Gwendolyn Audrey Foster,..."
  5. ↑ Mike Hollins, October 15, 2010, Daily Nebraskan, Film professors prescribe lesser-known horror cinema, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “... Dr. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster... Terror of Frankenstein ... mesmerizing and thoughtful..”
  6. ↑ Daily Nebraskan, Mike Hollins, December 3, 2010, Film professors share underappreciated holiday classic, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “... Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, an English professor at UNL, said she dislikes the idyllic outlook of most holiday films...”
  7. ↑ Kendra Marston, 2013, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, English ladies to liberators? How Pirates of the Caribbean and Alice in Wonderland mobilize aristocratic white femininity, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, "... Gwendolyn Audrey Foster explores the film performances of classic Hollywood star Mae West...
  8. ↑ Interview, September 22, 2003, Film Criticism, Every Frame Was Precious": An Interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...Dixon discusses his work with the Gwendolyn Audrey Foster ...”
  9. ↑ Daily Nebraskan, January 27, 2011, Mike Hollins, 3-D movies prove successful at box office, despite difficulties in filmmaking, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “..."I think the problem is that studios are not run by visionaries anymore..”
  10. ↑ Mayne, Judith. Book Review: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Women Filmmakers Of The African And Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing The Gaze, Locating Subjectivity and Kenneth W. Harrow, Ed. With Open Eyes: Women And African Cinema. In Research in African Literatures. Spring 1999, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 238-240. Accessed Oct. 26, 2013
  11. ↑ Judith E. Pike, January 1, 1997, Literature/Film Quarterly, Women-of-Color Filmmakers, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997. 177 pp....”
  12. ↑ Film Criticism, Allegheny College, Film Criticism, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. ...”
  13. ↑ Inside Higher Ed, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...The editors (Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) of Quarterly Review of Film and Video...”
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 MICHAEL ROWIN, 2003, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, BOOK REVIEW: IDENTITY AND MEMORY: THE FILMS OF CHANTAL AKERMAN, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013,
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 2013, Curriculum vitae, Professor Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Staff writer, April 11, 2011, Daily Nebraskan, Summer session discusses film censorship throughout history , Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “..."Censorship: Forbidden Hollywood," ... Gwendolyn Audrey Foster...”
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Film Journal, 2013, Underground Resources: Index, Underground Film Bookshelf, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...Below is a list of books written about the history of underground film. ...Dixon, Wheeler Winston, and Gwendolyn Audrey. Foster. Experimental Cinema: the Film Reader, London: Routledge, 2002. ...”
  18. ↑ March 1, 2005, Helen Addison-Smith, E.T. Go Home: Indigeneity, Multiculturalism and 'Homeland' in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...In Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's investigation of the performance of whiteness in Hollywood cinema..."
  19. ↑ Stuart Minnis, July 1, 2003, Journal of Film and Video, Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: THE FILM READER Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, eds. ... the American avant-garde.”
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Bowling Green State University, Cynthia Baron (editor), The Projector Film and Media Journal, Lois Weber: Woman Filmmaker Anne Marie Sweeney, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...In Women Film Directors: ... Gwendolyn Audrey Foster argues ...”
  21. ↑ National Women's History Museum, Women in Early Film, Women Behind the Camera: Women as Directors, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, ...“Cunard’s depiction ... notes Gwendolyn Audrey Foster...”
  22. ↑ Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, October 18, 2013, Yayoi Kusama: The Orgy of Self Obliteration, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...Gwendolyn Audrey Foster writes frequently for Film International....”
  23. ↑ Film Search, 1992, Chicago Reader, Women Who Made the Movies, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...Gwendolyn Foster and Wheeler Dixon's 1992 documentary surveys the history of women filmmakers in Hollywood...”
  24. ↑ Film listing, 1994, WorldCat, Squatters, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...Authors: Wheeler W Dixon; ... Gwendolyn Audrey Foster...”
  25. ↑ 2012-2013 Graduate reading list, ACS List, University of New Mexico, American Studies, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “...Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Captive Bodies: Postcolonial Subjectivity in Cinema (SUNY Press, 1999) ...”
  26. ↑ Wheeler Winston Dixon, July 2012, Screening the Past (film magazine), The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, Accessed Oct. 26, 2013, “... 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (co-written with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Rutgers University Press, 2011);...”

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