Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an award-winning experimental filmmaker and prolific author. Foster writes widely on film, literature, experimental film, class, race, gender and cultural studies. She is Willa Cather Professor Emerita in film studies at University of Nebraska.
With her partner, Wheeler Winston Dixon, Foster co-authored and co-edited books such as "A Short History of Film," a popular textbook used in film history classrooms, and "Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader." Foster and Dixon served as Editors for Quarterly Review of Film And Video (QRFV) from 1999 - 2014. Foster and Dixon are the Series Editors of "Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture," a collection of volumes that offer new perspectives on cinema and current popular culture for Rutgers University Press (2016 - present).
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's experimental films and video art installations have premiered at Museum of Modern Art MoMA (NYC), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Outfest (LA), Bi+ Arts Festival (Toronto), Films de Femmes (Créteil), Filmhuis Cavia (Amsterdam), BWA Contemporary Art Museum (Poland), Studio 44 (Stockholm), LACDA (LA Center for Digital Art), Oberhausen International Film Festival (Germany), and many art galleries, museums and film festivals around the world.
Originally from New York, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's documentary "The Women Who Made the Movies," is distributed by Women Make Movies. Foster's film work is archived at the UCLA Film & TV Archive in Los Angeles.
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