Grey Gardens

by Matthew Tinkcom

Overview

Grey Gardens (1975) is one of most important documentary films of the past thirty years, gaining the status of a cult classic. Matthew Tinkcom argues that the film reshaped documentary cinema by moving the non-fiction camera to the heart of the household, a private space into which film-makers had seldom previously ventured.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844573950
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/30/2011
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

MATTHEW TINKCOM is Associate Professor in Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema (Duke University Press, 2002) and co-editor of Key Frames: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 2001). He is currently working on a book manuscript on the digital moving image and its relation to on-line queer discursive communities.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction.- 'We Belong Together': Melodrama as Non-Fiction in Grey Gardens.- 'The Revolutionary Costume': Little Edie and Fashion.- 'If You Can't Get a Man to Propose to You, You Might As Well be Dead!': Direct Cinema and the Problem of Seduction.- Conclusion: 'I'm Pulverized by the Latest Thing': Grey Gardens and its Lives.- Notes.- Credits.