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3rd International Conference
on Emile Zola and Naturalism around the world and 1st Naturalist Film Festival


December 26-29, 1994
San Diego, CA, USA

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sponsored by AIZEN
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Organizers:
Prof. Monique E. FOL, Boston College, USA
Prof. Anna GURAL-MIGDAL, York University, Canada



Aboard "The Ship of Fools";
(From left) Anna Gural-Migdal, Tullio Pagano, Tony Williams,
Jeremy Wallace


Monday, December 26

3:30 PM - REGISTRATION

FIRST NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL INAUGURATION

4:00 PM  OPENING SPEECH, MONTEREY ROOM

AIZEN Co-Director and Film Festival Organizer: Anna GURAL-MIGDAL

NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL
4:30 PM- 11:30 PM, Monterey Room

Thérèse Raquin, Marcel Carné, 1953, France, 105 min.

The Postman Always Rings Twice, Jay Garnett, 1946, USA, 113 min.

Noces Rouges, C. Chabrol, 1973, France, 120 min.

Au Bonheur des dames, André Cayatte, France, 1943, 83 min.



Tuesday, December 27

NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL
8 AM-3:00 PM, Monterey Room

Germinal,Claude Berri, 1993, France, 160 min.

The Molly Maguires,Martin Ritt, 1970, USA, 123 min.

4:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monterey Room

Le point du jour,Louis Daquin, 1948, France, 101 min.

Germinal,Yves Allégret, 1963, France/Italy/Hungary, 110 min.

Le Brasier,Eric Barbier, 1990, France, 124 min.



Section A
9:00 AM-11:00 AM, Topeka Room

Zola’s Female Discourse

President: Jean-Michel Lanskin

Jane Stoub (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
"Lantier, La Seine, and the Paving Stones: The Roads that Lead to the Lost Mother"

Jurate Kaminskas (Queen's University, Canada)
"Itinéraire de la femme seule à Paris: pour une lecture renouvelée de Au Bonheur des dames"

Linda Beane Katner (St. Norbert College, USA)
"Zola's Female Discourse: The Orality of the Text"

Lydia Belatèche (Mississippi State University, USA)
"Speaking Inside and Outside of the Bourgeois Salon"

12:30 PM-1:30 PM
NATURALIST LUNCHEON with Diane Smith


Section B
2:00-4:00 PM, Topeka Room

Naturalism Around the World

President: Vilas Sarang

Laura C. Hartog (Madison Area Technical College, USA)
"McTeague: L'Assommoir américain"

Yiu-Nam Leung (National Tsing Hua University, China)
"Mao Tun, The Chinese Zola"

Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin (Université d’Ottawa, Canada)
"Emile Zola and Jack London: influences and Parallels"

Francis Lacoste (Université de Sfax, Tunisia)
"Zola et l'Académie"



Wednesday, December 28

Section C
9:00-11:00 AM, Topeka Room

New Critical approaches to Naturalism

President: Michael Lastinger

Daniel Ferreras (West Virginia University, USA)
"Le naturalisme fantastique"

Vilas Sarang (Kuwait University, Kuwait)
"Naturalism and Magic Realism: A Writerly Look at Marquez"

Tullio Pagano (Dickinson College, USA)
"Allegorizing La Curée"

Sylvie L.F. Richards (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
"The Beast Within Zola’s Bestiary in the Rougon-Macquart..."

 

Section D
11:00-12:30 PM, Topeka Room

 

Zola, O’Neill and Verhaeren

President: Daniel Ferreras

Michel Berta (North Carolina School of the Arts, USA)
"Emile Zola et la Rome nouvelle"

Kevin Elstob (Cleveland State University, USA)
"Zola and O'Neill's Naturalist Theatre: Making demands on the audience and themselves"

Jacques Marx (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
"La poésie naturaliste d'Emile Verhaeren"

12:30-1:30 PM
NATURALIST LUNCHEON with Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin

Section E
2:00-4:00 PM, Topeka Room

New Critical Approaches to Zola’s Text

President: Jacques Marx

Michael Lastinger (West Virginia University, USA)
"The (im)persistence of Memory: Emile Zola's Le Rêve and the Flight from Fatality"

Jean-Michel Lanskin (Duquesne University, USA)
"Le noir scénario d'une blanchisseuse: analyse transactionnelle de I'infortune d'une Macquart"

Anna Gural-Migdal (York University, Canada)
"Entre naturalisation et neutralisation: l'effet idéologique de l'écriture chez Zola"

Karl Rosen (University of Kansas, USA), "Some Classical Elements in Zola"

NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL
1:30 PM-6:30 PM, Monterey Room

Misère en Borinage,Joris Ivens and Henry Storck, 1960, Belgium, 34 min.

La Bête humaine,Jean Renoir, 1938, France, 100 min.

Human Desire,Fritz Lang, 1954, USA, 90 min.

La Curée,Baldassare Negroni, 1916, Italy, 73 min.

7:00-8:00 PM
COCKTAIL PARTY



Thursday, December 29

NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL
8:00 AM-1:30 PM, Monterey Room

Gervaise, René Clément, 1956, France, 111 min. (from L'Assommoir)

Nana, Christian-Jaque, 1955, France/Italy, 100 min.

Nana, Jean Renoir, 1926, France, 104 min.

1:30 PM-2:30 PM
NATURALIST LUNCHEON with Anna Gural-Migdal

2:30-3:30 PM, Topeka Room
Special Session with all participants: Discussion of films viewed to date at the Film Festival

NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL
3:30-7:00 PM, Monterey Room

Thérèse Raquin,Marcel Carné, 1953, France, 105min.

Au Bonheur des dames,Julien Duvivier, 1930, France, 80 min.

Section F
3:30-5:00 PM, Topeka Room

Panel: The Dreyfus Affair

President and Organizer: Dominique Van Hooff

Nicole Amon (San Jose Christian College, USA)
"Les écrivains fin-de-siècle et l'Affaire Dreyfus"

Dominique Van Hooff (San Jose State University, USA)
"Zola, un intellectuel dans la tourmente"

Teresa Myinto (Hayward State University, USA)
"La caricature comme arme politique dans l'Affaire"


Section G
5:00-7:00 PM, Topeka Room

A Comparative Approach to Zola’s

Rougon-Macquart

President: Anna Gural-Migdal

Pierrette Spetz (Clayton Valley HS, USA)
"Le thème de la prostitution dans les romans d'Emile Zola et de Federico Gamboa"

Martin Kopf (Western Oregon State University, USA)
"The Theme of Entrapment and Escape in Zola's L'Assommoir and Germinal"

Diane Smith (SUNY College of Technology, USA)
"Drink, Destiny and Degradation in Zola’s L'Assommoir and Kretzer's Die Verkommenen"

Robert Singer (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA)
"Screening murder: Zola's La Bête humaine and its cinematic adaptation"

7:30-8:30 PM
COCKTAIL PARTY



Friday, December 30

Section H
9:00-11:00 AM

Aboard "The Ship of Fools"

Naturalist Writers and Cinema

President: Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin


Aboard "The Ship of Fools";
(From left) Michael Lastinger,
Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin, Jeremy Wallace


Tony Williams (Southern lllinois University at Carbondale, USA)
"Jack London and the Naturalist Cinema"

Russell Cousins (The University of Birmingham, UK)
"Early cinematographic versions of La Terre and Germinal"

Patricia Carles and Béatrice Desgranges (Lycée de Bruyères, France)
"Le Germinal de Claude Berri, entre hommage et trahison"

Monique Fol (Boston College, USA)
"Of Other Minds Born: Marcel Carné, René Clément, Julien Duvivier and Claude Berri"

NATURALIST FILM FESTIVAL
11:00 AM-1:00PM

Aboard "The Ship of Fools"

Fragments of films about Jack London’s short stories and novels presented by Tony Willams

1:00-2:00 PM
NATURALIST LUNCHEON with Tony Williams

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