24 and 27 November 1999
Sorbonne
« Crime Fictions – Subverted Codes and New Structures »

 

Publication

Gallix François et Vanessa Guignery, eds. Crime Fictions – Subverted Codes and New Structures. Paris: Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne, 2004. 200p. ISBN 2-84050-349-2. Prix 23 euros

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Programme of the conference

 24 November 1999. Salle Louis Liard

Leading clue: Crime Fictions: Humour and Subversions of the Genre

 9-9.30 welcome by François Gallix, director of the research centre and  introduction by Alain Jumeau Head of the English Department (Paris IV-Sorbonne)

 9.30-10 Catherine Mari (Pau) “Desperately looking for the truth: The Traps and Trappings of Crime Fiction in Charles Palliser's The Unburied.”

10-10.30      François Gallix (Paris IV-Sorbonne) “Twists and Turns in Crime Fiction—Peter Lovesey's "Youdunnit".”

10.30 11 coffee break

11-11.30 Christine Evain (Centrale, Nantes) “John Grisham's megabestsellers”

11.30-12.30 round table chaired by Peter Lovesey

12.30-14.30 lunch break

14.30-15  Isabelle Boof-Vermesse (Toulouse II) “James Ellroy's American Tabloid—Conspiracy Theory and Chaos Theory”

15-15-30 Isabelle Roblin (Boulogne) “Nancy Drew Revisited—Female Private Eyes in Contemporary American Fiction.”

15-30-16 Camille Fort (Strasbourg II) “Rhyme or Reason—Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in The Crime Fiction Novel”

16-17 round table chaired by Donald Westlake with Marie-Caroline Aubert, Freddy Michalski, Francis Mizio, Val McDermid, John Harvey

 

27 November 1999 Amphithéâtre Guizot.

Leading clue: Filming the Crime Novel.

9-9.30 Welcome

9.30-10 Gilles Menegaldo (Poitiers) “The Retrospective Investigation in The Killers, by Robert Siodmak”

10-10.30 Delphine Kresge (Amiens) “Murder by Death, or How to kill the Novel”

10.30-11 coffee break

11-11.30 Dominique Sipière (Boulogne) “A few things Hitchcock taught us about whodunits”

11.30-12-30 round table chaired by Donald Westlake with François Guérif

12.30-14.30 lunch break

14.30-15 Nicole Décuré (Toulouse III) “Film adaptations of Sarah Paretsky's Novels”

15-15-30 Danielle Charest (author, "Le Masque") “The Impact of Feminism on the contemporary detective fiction.”

15.30-16 Jean-Louis Vidalenc (Aix-Marseille I) “Translating Crime Films—Can Puritanism Trigger New Semantic Values ?”

16-17  round table chaired by Peter Lovesey