CONFERENCE

on  EMILE  ZOLA

 and  3rd  NATURALIST

 FILM  FESTIVAL

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sponsored by AIZEN

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NEW YORK

September 26-28, 1996

HUNTER COLLEGE

Department of Romance Languages

CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

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(From left) Anna Gural-Migdal, Brigitte Emile-Zola, Robert Singer, Monique Fol

Section  A
9:30-11:00 AM, ROOM 11 NORTH

Zola and Society

President: Filippo Salvatore

Eduardo A. Febles (Brown University, USA),
"The Figure of the Anarchist in Zola’s Paris"

Kari Weil (Wake Forest University, USA),
"Mounting Fears in Naturalist Paris"

Lucienne Frappier-Mazur (University of Pennsylvania, USA),
"Le nationalisme français et la guerre de 1870. Lire La Débâcle
d'Emile Zola"

11:00-11:15 AM COFFEE BREAK

Section B 
11:15 AM-1:15 PM, ROOM 11 NORTH

Screen Adaptations of Zola's Novels

President: Robert Singer

Mireille Henneton (Université Paris IV, France),
"La Terre, histoire d'un roman au théâtre et au cinéma"

Céline Philibert (Potsdam College, SUNY, USA),
"La Bête humaine's Despair and Desire: The Centrality of
the Woman in Renoir’s Narrative"

Russell Cousins (University of Birmingham, UK),
"Screen Images of Nana: Hard Headed Whore or Femme Fatale?"

1:15-2:30 PM LUNCH BREAK

Section C
2:30-4:00 PM, ROOM 11 NORTH

Emile Zola

President: Russell Cousins

Denise Merkle (Université Laurentienne, Canada),
"La réception critique de Zola en Angleterre à la fin du XlXème siècle"

Joseph Sungolowsky (Queens College, CUNY, USA),
"Emile Zola et la condition juive"

Geoff Woollen (University of Glasgow, UK)
"Ernest Vizetelly, Translator and Defender of Zola"

4:00-4:15 PM COFFEE BREAK

Section D
4:15-5:45 PM, ROOM 11 NORTH

New Critical Approaches to Zola's Text

President: Lucienne Frappier-Mazur

Christophe Ippolito (Columbia University,
New York, USA),
"La vérité toute nue sort du puits: Communication et sexualité
dans La Fortune des  Rougon"

Mihaela C. Marin (Tulane University, USA),
"La banlieue et les lois de la transformation symbolique dans L'Assommoir de Zola"

Jurate D. Kaminskas (Queen's University, Canada),
"La Fortune des Rougon ou la vie parasitaire: mode d'emploi"

6:00-10:00 PM, ROOM 11 NORTH

NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL EVENING SHOW TIME

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

Section E
9:3O-11:00 AM, ROOM 217 WEST

American Naturalism I

President: James Giles

Catherine Jurca (California Institute of Technology, USA),
"Frank Noriss's Urban Naturalism"

Katherine Joslin (Western Michigan University, USA),
"Experimental Moralist: Jane Addams as Storyteller"

Douglas Ivison (Université de Montréal, Canada),
"The Use and Abuse of History: A Naturalist Reading of
August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson"

11:00-11:15 AM COFFEE BREAK

Section F
11:15 AM-1:15 PM, ROOM 217 WEST

French Naturalist Writers Revisited:

J. K. Huysmans

President: Jacques Marx

Arundhati Banerjee (Tufts University, USA),
"Details True or False: A Study of Textual Displacement in
Huysmans’s A  Rebours"

Amy Reid  (University of South Florida, USA), "Take Two:
"Les Soeurs Vatard, Huysmans's  Experimental Novel"

Charles J.T. Talar  (Alvernia College, USA),
"(Anti) hagiography and Mysticism in the Work of J. K. Huysmans"

1:15-2:30 PM LUNCH BREAK

Section G
2:30-4:00 PM, ROOM 217 WEST

Cinematic Naturalism

President: Tony Williams

Michael Lastinger (West Virginia University, USA),
"When the Vow Breaks... Sense and Sensuality in
La Faute de l’Abbé Mouret and Priest"

Robert Singer (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA),
"Only the Dead: Urban  Milieu in the Contemporary Naturalist Film"

Bruce Williams (The William Paterson College, USA),
"Madrid au naturel or the Reassesment of Genre
in the Post Franco Cinema"

4:00-4:15 PM   COFFEE BREAK

Section H
4:15-5:45 PM, ROOM 217 WEST

Molina Sintia E. (Lehman College, CUNY, USA),
"Naturalismo y feminismo en Las Hondradas de Miguel de Carrion"

Gabriela Nouzeilles (Duke University, USA),
"Modernization and Racial Economy in
Manuel Zeno Gandia’s La Charca"

David K. Danow (University of California, Riverside, USA),
"Time and Memory in Love in the Time of Cholera"

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Section I
9:00-11:00 AM, ROOM 11 NORTH

Zola and The Visual Novel

President: Danielle Kent

Soundouss Ech Cherif El Kettani (Université Laval,
Canada),
"Le regard autre, une nécessité de l'écriture zolienne"

Marc Lony (Vassar College, USA),
"Peinture et motricité: une structuration cognitive de l’espace de L'Oeuvre"

Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada),
"Rythme et montage filmique dans Les Rougon-Macquart"

Susan Harrow (University of Wales, UK),
"Myopia and the Model: the Making and Unmaking of
Renée in Zola's La Curée "

11:00-11:15 AM COFFEE BREAK

Section  J
11:15 AM-1:15 PM, ROOM 11 NORTH

Woman's representation in Zola

President: Anna Gural-Migdal

Véronique Cnockaert (Université de Montréal, Canada),
"Denise ou la vertu attentatoire dans Le Bonheur des dames"

Leslie Ann Minot (University of California, Berkeley, USA),
"Women and the Commune: Zola’s Revisions"

Charles S. Kapanga Kapele (Université Laurentienne, Canada),
"Le conflit des passions ou la femme écartelée entre la mère et
l'amante dans Une page d'amour d'Emile Zola"

Susan S. Hennessy (South Arkansas University, USA),
"La mère mégère in Zola"

1:15AM-2:30 PM LUNCH BREAK

Section K
2:30 PM-4:30 PM, ROOM 11 NORTH

Zola before Les Rougon-Macquart

President: Michael Lastinger

Sayeeda H. Mamoon (University of South Dakota, USA),
"Re(de)fining the Masculine Body: The Artist and Her Model
in Zola's Madame Sourdis"

Anca Mitroi (University of Southern California, USA),
"Thérèse Raquin : le baiser à bout de souffle"

Robert O. Steele (Binghamton University, SUNY, USA),
"Le Voyage circulaire. Zola as Popular Culture"

Anthony John Evenhuis (University of Tasmania, Australia)
"Zola and the Unpardonable Sin, a Psychoanalytical
study of Madeleine Férat"

4:30-4:45 PM COFFEE BREAK

Section L
4:45 PM-6:45 PM, ROOM 11 NORTH

French Writers: A Naturalist Reading

President: Julia Przybos

Juliette Parnell-Smith (University of Nebraska, USA),
"Les Filles de la Galoubette, un roman naturaliste et féministe de Louise Michel"

Joseph Hagerty (Graduate School, CUNY, USA),
"Relative Realities and Specular Images in Octave Mirbeau's L'Abbé Jules"

Filippo Salvatore (Concordia University, Canada),
"Amour et révolte dans la trilogie Jacques Vingtas  de Jules Vallès"

Brigitte Emile-Zola

Jacques Marx (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique), "Lucien Descaves et le Naturalisme communard" 7:00 PM, ROOM 217 WEST • Cocktail party in honour of Dr. Brigitte Emile-Zola • Speech by Dr. Brigitte Emile-Zola • Presentation of The AIZEN Award for the best graduate student paper • Introduction of Tony Williams’ new book

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Section M
9:00 - 11:00 AM, ROOM 217 WEST

American Naturalism II

President: Diane Smith

Traci Reed Carroll (Rhodes College, USA),
"Stephen Crane's The Monster  and the Race of American Naturalism"

Tony Williams (Southern lllinois University, USA),
"Stephen King, Naturalism and The Shining"

James Giles (Northern lllinois University, USA),
"John Rechy, Herbert Selby and Latter-Day Naturalism"

10:30-11:00 AM  Book Presentation
The Naturalistic  Inner-City Novel In America  by James Giles

ll:00AM-11:15AM COFFEE BREAK

Section N
ll:l5 AM-1:15 PM, ROOM 217 WEST

Emile Zola and Hispanic Naturalist

Writers: A Comparative Study

President: Daniel Ferreras

OswaldoVoysest (University of California, Berkeley, USA),
"Fashion and Characterization in Mercedes Cabello's Blanca Sol and
Emile Zola's La Curée : Tailored Differences"

Alira Ashuo Muñoz (University of Texas at Austin, USA),
"Reminiscencias de Zola en Del amor y otros demonios,
de Gabriel Garcia Marquez"

Gilbert Darbouze (Bloomsburg University, USA),
"Le calvaire du plaisir ou le chemin de la rédemption
chez Zola et Zeno Gandia: Essai de comparaison"

12:45-1:15 PM Book Presentation:
Zola et Zeno Gandia by Gilbert Darbouze

1:15-2:30 PM LUNCH BREAK

Section O
2:30-4:30 PM, ROOM 217 WEST

French Naturalist Writers Revisited:

Les Goncourt

President: Kari Weil

Sarah Davies Cordova (Marquette University, USA),
"Germinie Lacerteux's Danced Erasure"

Lydia Belatèche (Mississippi State University, USA),
"Gossip and the Call for Silence in the Frères Goncourt"

Julia Przybos (Hunter College, CUNY, USA),
"Germinie Lacerteux : la littérature au service des sciences sociales"

Daniel Ferreras (West Virginia University, USA),
Title to be announced

4:30-4:45 PM COFFEE BREAK

Section P
4:45 PM-6:45 PM, ROOM 217 WEST

Zola's Masters and Disciples

President: Jurate Kaminskas

Jeremy Wallace (University of British Columbia, Canada),
"Baudelaire, Zola et la femme-charogne"

Wynne Wong (University of lllinois,
Urbana-Champaign, USA),
"Zola et les Naturalistes dans l'univers romanesque de Gabrielle Roy"

Elizabeth Emery (New York University, USA),
"Zola, Disciple of Huysmans"

Terry Oggel (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA),
"Zola's Influence on Mark Twain's Public' Career"

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

Section Q
9:00 AM-10:30 AM, ROOM 11 NORTH

Emile Zola: Beyond Naturalism

President: Geoff Woollen

Danielle Kent (University of Plymouth, UK),
"Zola and the Senses: the Material Experience"

Pierre Emmanuel Coudert (Assumption College, USA),
"Mythe et hagiographie dans Au Bonheur des Dames"

Viviane Casimir (Colorado College,USA),
"The Museum: a Discursive Place / Space of Alienation"

Section R
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM, ROOM 217 WEST

Spanish Naturalism

 President: Bruce Williams

Ricardo Krauel (Brown University, USA),
"La Sinrazon de la razon: revision de la cordura en Fortunata y Jacinta"

Sylvia Lopez (Beloit College, USA),
"Flights of Fancy and Underground Galdos’ Genies:
the Overworldly in Misericordia"

Daria J. Montero Paulson (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA),
"Benito Pérez Galdos and Naturalism: Lo prohibido:
Novel-Chronicle of an illustrious Andalusian Family of Neurotics"

10:30-10:45 COFFEE BREAK

Section S
10:45AM-12:15 PM, ROOM 11 NORTH

PANEL: ZOLA AND VISUAL ART

Organizer: Françoise Lucbert

President: Elizabeth Emery

Françoise Lucbert (Université de Montréal, Canada),
"Symbolism Through Naturalism: Emile Zola and
Joris-Karl Huysmans on Gustave Moreau"

Barbara J. Larson (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA),
"Zola's Naturalism and Its Legacy to Symbolism"

Laura Morowitz (Wagner College, USA),
"Zola’s Le Rêve: Naturalism, Symbolism and Medievalism in the fin-de-siècle"

Section T
10:45-12:45AM, ROOM 217 WEST

PANEL: THEODORE DREISER

AND GENDER

President and Organizer: Miriam Gogol

Miriam Gogol (Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, USA),
"Dreiser in the 90s: beyond Naturalism",
Opening remarks and presentation of the book Beyond Naturalism

Shelley Fisher Fishkin (University of Texas at Austin, USA),
"Dreiser and the Discourse of Gender"

Irene Gammel (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada),
"Dearest Wilding: Dreiser's Sexual Rhetoric in Letters and Diaries"

Laura Hapke (Pace University, USA),
"Men Strike, Women Sew: Gendered Labor Worlds in
Dreiser's Social Protest Art"

12:45-1:45 PM LUNCH BREAK

NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL,  2:00-6:00 PM, ROOM 11

7:00 PM, NATURALIST SUPPER

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3rd NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL

THURSDAY, September 26

6:00-10:00 PM, ROOM 11 NORTH

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Human Desire
(adapted from Zola's La Bête Humaine), 1 h 30, Director: F. Lang, 1954.

Double-crosses, suspence, and sexual tension--Glenn Ford stars as
a man involved in an affair with the noir femme fatale Gloria Grahame.

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Gervaise
(adapted from Zola's novel L’Assommoir), 1 h 51, Director: R. Clément, 1956.

Maria Schell struggles against alcoholism, poverty and gives
a heart-wrenching performance.

SATURDAY, September 28

2:00-6:00 PM, ROOM 11 NORTH

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Straight Out of Brooklyn
(original screenplay),  2 h, Director: M. Rich, 1991.

This 19 year old filmmaker makes an outstanding statement
about crime, poverty, and the sense of hopelessness endemic to
the contemporary urban setting.

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A Place In the Sun
(Based on Dreiser's An American Tragedy ), 2 h 02, Director: G. Stevens, 1951.

Montgomery Clift plays a handsome social climber in love with two
women from different classes--Shelley Winters and Elizabeth Taylor.