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Informationen zum Autor Matthew Tinkcom is Associate Professor of Communication, Culture and Technology and Affiliate Faculty of English at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of Working Like a Homosexual: Camp: Capital, Cinema and Grey Gardens , co-editor of Key Frames: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies as well as articles that have appeared in Cinema Journal , South Atlantic Quarterly and collections from Duke University Press and the British Film Institute. He has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar and Director of the Program in American Studies. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
