Screening & Discussion of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation
- May 23, 2018
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Brill Library Film Series:
Screening & Discussion of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
7:30 pm
Post-film Discussant: Helen K. Gediman, Ph.D.
Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 masterpiece, The Conversation, is the brilliant forerunner of films in the surveillance stalking genre in which professionals are paid to stalk. The incomparable Gene Hackman portrays a schizoid private investigator whose personality deteriorates under work-related personal guilt that breaks through his characteristic dissociative defenses. The surveillance technology of the Watergate era that sustain his fragile persona is uncannily prescient of present-day omnipresent hacking in Cyberspace. For chills and thrills in great cinema, come one and all.
No CME/CE credit offered.
Dr. Helen K. Gediman is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty, Supervising and Training Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, and in full time practice in Manhattan. The writer of numerous published papers on psychoanalysis, she has also authored or co-authored five psychoanalytic books. Her latest are her selected papers, Building Bridges, and Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy. The latter is a selection of the CIPS series on The Boundaries of Psychoanalysis, a psychoanalytic study of Erotomania, Voyeurism, Surveillance, and Invasion of Privacy, and will provide the basis of her discussion of The Conversation.
Venue: NYPSI's Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
Description:
Second Floor, 247 East 82nd Street | New York, NY 10028
