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The Conversation
Author(s) -
Denzin Norman K.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.1992.15.2.135
Subject(s) - reflexivity , gaze , conversation , ethnography , sociology , ideology , ethnomethodology , movie theater , reading (process) , realism , aesthetics , epistemology , media studies , psychoanalysis , psychology , visual arts , anthropology , art , linguistics , politics , communication , philosophy , political science , law
A critical, interpretive reading of Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 film The Conversation is offered. As an example of reflexive cinema, this film unravels the ideological arguments that support the investigative‐voyeuristic gaze, whether that is the gaze of the ethnographer, the sociologist, or the wiretap expert. The relationships between sociological, ethnographic and cinematic realism are examined. The need for greater reflexivity in our sociological–investigative practices is suggested.