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September, 22-24, 1995
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
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Organizers:
Prof. Monique FOL, (Boston College, USA)
Prof. Anna Gural-Migdal, (York University, Canada)

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND


Naturalist Film Festival Morning Show Time
8:00 AM-10:45 AM

Au Bonheur des Dames, Julien Duvivier, 1929. Fr., 80 min.
(Unavailable in the US) avec Pierre de Guinguand, Arnaud Bour, Dita Parlo,
Germaine Rouer, Ginette Maddy.

Au Bonheur des  Dames, André Cayatte, 1943. Fr., 83 min.
(Unavailable in the US) avec Michel Simon, Albert Préjean, Blanchette Brunoy,
Susy Prim, Jean Tissier, Juliette Faber.

Michel BERTA  (North Carolina School of the Arts, USA)
"Les Amours du Beau Narcisse et de la Nymphe Echo"

Karl ROSEN (University of Kansas, USA)
"Some Classical Elements in Zola: A Wider View"

Michael LASTINGER (West Virginia University, USA)
"Separate Identity: "la fêlure" and the Orphic Myth in Les Rougon-Macquart"

Danielle KENT (Centre For Modern Languages, University of Plymouth, England)
"Zola’s Women: a chink in the armour"

LUNCH BREAK:       1:00PM-2:00PM

William DOW (The American University of Paris, France)
"Fiction is not Real: Naturalism, the Performative, and Frank Norris's McTeague"

Patrick K. DOOLEY (St. Bonaventure University, USA)
"Muscular and Moral Heroism in Frank Norris's A Man's Woman"

Philip MOMBERGER (University of West Florida, USA)
"Thematics of Space in Frank Norris's McTeague"

Jacqueline TAVERNIER-COURBIN (University of Ottawa, Canada)
"A Californian Blend of Naturalism: Frank Norris and Jack London"

Paper read by Professor Smith and discussion of his latest book: Fact and Feeling, Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination.

Naturalist Film Festival Evening Show Time
8:00 PM -11:30 PM

Nana,Jean Renoir, 1926, Fr., 104 min.,
(Unavailable in the US) avec Catherine Hessling, Jean Angélo, Werner Krauss

Nana,Christian-Jaque, 1955, Fr., /It., 100 min.,
(Unavailable in the US) avec Martine Carol, Charles Boyer, N. Roquevert,
J. Castelot, W. Chiari, Marguerite Pierry, Dora Doll

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD

NaturaIist Film Festival Morning Show Time
8:00AM-10:45 AM

The Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein, 1922, URSS, 65 min.,
avec Alexandre Antonov, Wladimir Barsky, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomarov,
des acteurs du Proletkult, les équipages soviétiques de la mer Noire et la population d’Odessa.

Greed (Les Rapaces), Erich von Stroheim. 1925, USA, 120 min.,
avec Gibsy Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Lean Hersholl, Chester Conklin, Sylvia Ashton

Paper read by Professor Danow and Discussion of his latest book:
The Spirit of Carnival, Magical Realism and the Grotesque

LUNCH BREAK :          12:00-1:15 PM

Robert SINGER (Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, USA)
"Real History: Film Biography and the Representation of Naturalism"

Tony WILLIAMS (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA)
"Eisenstein and Zola: Naturalism, Cinema, and Mythograph"

Charles ELKABAS (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Le gag zolien: entre la farce rabelaisienne et le gag cinématographique"

Jeremy WALLACE (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Saisir sur le vif: le style du duc de Saint-Simon et l'écriture artiste des Frères Goncourt"

Robert ZIEGLER (Montana Tech, USA)
"The Naturalist Cloaca in Huysmans' Sac au dos"

Daniel FERRERAS (West Virginia University, USA)
"Amour Noir, Mort Blanche: 'Boîtelle' de Maupassant"

Peter ASHWORTH (Brigham Young University, USA)
"Emilia Pardo Bazan, What-ist She: Naturalist, Realist, Ironist or Feminist?"

Barbara GORDON (Brigham Young University, USA)
"The existential Garden in Los pazos de Ulloa and La madre naturaleza"

Dale PRATT (Brigham Young University, USA)
"Pardo Bazan, Hot Currents and the Electric Grotesque"

COCKTAIL PARTY / CASH BAR : 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Naturalist Film Festival Evening Show Time
8:00 PM-11:30 PM

La Bête humaine,Jean Renoir, 1938, Fr., 100 min., (Prix Méliès 1938)
avec Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Julien Carette

Thérèse Raquin,Marcel Carné, 1953, Fr., 105 min.,
(Unavailable in the US) avec Simone Signoret, Ralf Vallone, Roland Lesaffre,
Jacques Duby, Maria Pia Casilio, P. Frankeur



SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH

Naturalist Film Festival Morning Show Time
8:00 AM-9:30 AM

The Call of the Wild,William A. Wellman, 1935, USA,
Fragments /originally 95 min. avec Clark Gable, Loretta Young,
Jack Oakie, Reginald Owen

Martin Eden,Hobart Bosworth, 1914, USA, (Silent film fragments)

Laura C. HARTOG (University of Illinois, USA)
"La Machine, l'argent et l'eau de rose: le vrai 'bonheur des dames' zolien"

Elizabeth EMERY (New York University, USA, Doctoral candidate)
"La cathédrale du commerce moderne: Zola and the Religion of Science"

Elisabeth LANOIS (North Dakota State University, USA)
"Viewpoint and Gendered Space: Berthe Morisot's On the Balcony,
Meudon  and Emile Zola’s Une Page d'amour"

LUNCH BREAK : 11:00 AM- 12:00 PM

Linda Beane KATNER (St. Norbert College, USA)
"Polyphonic Discourse in the Narrative of Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart"

Tullio PAGANO (Dickinson College, USA)
"Narrative as a Combinatory Process: Zola’s "Experimental" Method"

Anna GURAL-MIGDAL (York University, Canada)
" Figures de l'Entre et de l'Autre  dans Nana"

Diane SMITH (State University of New York, USA)
"Metaphor and Working Class Life in Four Naturalist Novels"

Professor Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin will present her recently published book on Jack London:
The Call of the Wild: A Naturalistic Romance.

Discussion of some of the films shown during the Conference
Moderators:William Dow, Monique Fol, Robert Singer