Description: A study of the Maysles' 1975 documentary Grey Gardens in the BFI Film Classics series.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: "Filmmakers were supposed to be a fly on the wall and no more present than you need to be, ' says Tinkcom, author of BFI Film Classics: Grey Gardens." --Vanity Fair