Grey Gardens
$28.22
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2025
Summary
Grey Gardens: A House of Dreams and Decay
The Maysles brothers’ iconic documentary, Grey Gardens (1975), offers an intimate glimpse into the peculiar world of Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith—two women from high society living in genteel squalor. This study argues that Grey Gardens revolutionized documentary filmmaking by turning the camera toward the domestic sphere, a space rarely explored with such raw honesty.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839029295 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839029293 |
| Series: | BFI Film Classics |
| Author: | Dr. Matthew Tinkcom |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | BFI Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 186mm x 134mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Dr. Matthew Tinkcom
Matthew Tinkcom is Director and Professor of Communication, Culture and Technology at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema (2002), Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-editor of Key Frames: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies (2003).
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