Skip to main content
The index room

Explore the index behind the atlas

Use this room when you already know the kind of cultural terrain you want to inspect. For guided orientation, open the Field Map or begin with a pathway.

Refine this shelf lens · medium · theme

Now showing — Conversation Piece · 5 works

  • Conversation Piece Film · 1970s

    Conversation Piece is a 1974 film from Italy and France, associated with Luchino Visconti. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryLonging
  • The Conversation Film · 1970s

    The Conversation is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written, produced, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Gene Hackman as surveillance expert Harry Caul who faces a moral dilemma when his recordings reveal a potential murder. Supporting cast members include John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cin...

    After-hoursPowerSurveillance
  • Outline Books · 2010s

    Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elde...

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • The Rehearsal Television · 2020s

    A man helps people rehearse difficult conversations with elaborate simulations. Comedy as existential crisis.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • Before Sunrise Film · 1990s

    Two strangers walk through Vienna all night. Conversation as romance.

    After-hoursLongingPower
Also in the field · 3
Screen to page
Books that echo Conversation Piece
  • Outline Books
Listening lane
Albums in this field
  • Portrait in Jazz Music
  • Conversation Piece Music
Cultural geography
Regional constellations
  • The Rehearsal Television
  • The Conversation Film