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Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey was born on November 4, 1960 in Suffern, New York, United States. Daughter of Donald and Audrey Foster.
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Until now, there hasn't been one single-volume authoritative reference work on the history of women in film, highlighting nearly every woman filmmaker from the dawn of cinema including Alice Guy (France, 1896), Chantal Akerman (Belgium), Penny Marshall (U.S.), and Sally Potter (U.K.). Every effort has been made to include every kind of woman filmmaker: commercial and mainstream, avant-garde, and minority, and to give a complete cross-section of the work of these remarkable women. Scholars and students of film, popular culture, Women's Studies, and International Studies, as well as film buffs will learn much from this work. The Dictionary covers the careers of nearly 200 women filmmakers, giving vital statistics where available, listings of films directed by these women, and selected bibliographies for further reading. This is a one-volume, one-stop resource, a comprehensive, up-to-date guide that is absolutely essential for any course offering an overview or survey of women's cinema. It offers not only all available statistics, but critical evaluations of the filmmakers' work as well. In order to keep the length manageable, this volume focuses on women who direct fictional narrative films, with occasional forays into the area of the documentary and is limited to film production rather than video production.
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Black women filmmakers not only deserve an audience, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster asserts, but it is also imperative that their voices be heard as they struggle against Hollywood’s constructions of spectatorship, ownership, and the creative and distribution aspects of filmmaking. Foster provides a voice for Black and Asian women in the first detailed examination of the works of six contemporary Black and Asian women filmmakers. She also includes a detailed introduction and a chapter entitled "Other Voices," documenting the work of other Black and Asian filmmakers. Foster analyzes the key films of Zeinabu irene Davis, "one of a growing number of independent Black women filmmakers who are actively constructing in the words of bell hooks an oppositional gaze’"; British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah and Julie Dash, two filmmakers working with time and space; Pratibha Parmar, a Kenyan/Indian-born British Black filmmaker concerned with issues of representation, identity; cultural displacement, lesbianism, and racial identity; Trinh T. Minh-ha, a Vietnamese-born artist who revolutionized documentary filmmaking by displacing the "voyeuristic gaze of the ethnographic documentary filmmaker"; and Mira Nair, a Black Indian woman who concentrates on interracial identity.
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film scholar Professor of English
Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey was born on November 4, 1960 in Suffern, New York, United States. Daughter of Donald and Audrey Foster.
Bachelor in English, Douglass College, 1983. Master of Arts in English, University Nebraska, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy in English, University Nebraska, 1995.
From 1999 through the end of 2014, she was co-editor along with Wheeler Winston Dixon of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Critic Michael Rowin described her 2003 anthology as "impressively comprehensive." She is currently a professor of English and film studies at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Foster received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Rutgers University in 1983 and received a doctorate at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln in 1995.
Foster has written about film-related topics such as censorship, screenwriting, underground film, Hollywood film, avant garde film, history of film, film criticism, French filmmakers, Asian cinema, cultural studies, feminist and Marxist critical theory, and women directors such as Grace Cunard and Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
Along with filmmaker and scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Foster has made films including the 1991 documentary Women Who Made The Movies as well as the 1994 film Squatters. She has published extensively in Film International, and has written many film-related books and articles
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Member Modern Language Association, Society for Cinema Studies, University Film and Video Association, Popular Culture Association, National Womens Studies Association, American Studies Association at Texas, Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Women Film Pioneers Project.
Married Wheeler Winston Dixon, December 23, 1985.