Dr Russell Cousins has research interests in French Cinema, screen adaptation and nineteenth-century French realist fiction. He has published on Zola and the screen adaptation of his novels and contributed a number of essays on films, directors, actors and production artists to the four volumes of the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Together with Ron Hallmark and Ian Pickup he has also published books and articles on studying in France, and a revised second edition of Studying and Working in France is in hand. His main research interest lies in screen adaptation and he is currently writing a book on Zola and the cinema. Articles and reviews have appeared in the following journals: Literature/Film Quarterly, Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, Francophonie, Les Cahiers Naturalistes, Excavatio, French Studies Bulletin, Higher Education Quarterly. Reviews have appeared in The Modern Language Review, British Journal of Canadian Studies, Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, Viewfinder, CILT Bulletin, ASM&CF Newsletter. Conference papers have been given at Aston, Bath, Besançon, Birmingham, Cambridge Edmonton Glasgow, Jaen, Leicester, London, Loughborough, New York, Oxford, San Francisco, Warwick

In the French department, Russell Cousins still teaches an undergraduate course on French cinema. He has taught on the department’s MA and MPhil (B) programmes and has supervised research on Maupassant, Duhamel and Hollywood adaptations. He has worked as a HEFCE subject specialist for French and Communication and Media Studies and held a number of external examinerships.

Publications

Books

(Co-authored with R E Hallmark & I Pickup) Studying and Working in France, Manchester University Press, 1994, x + 314 pp

Zola. Thérèse Raquin, Critical Guides to French Literature, No 95, London, Grant & Cutler,1992, 87 pp.

(Co-authored with RE Hallmark and I Pickup). A Student Guide to French Universities, Birmingham Modern Languages Publications, no 2 (X + 196 pp)

Essays in books

Antoine’s version of La Terre: an experiment in naturalist filmmaking in A Gural-Migdal and R Singer (eds) Zola and Film: essays in the art of adaptation. (London, McFarland, 2005) pp15-26

Ideology and focalisation in Gervaise: the Aurenchébost treatment in A Gural-Migdal and R Singer (eds) Zola and Film: essays in the art of adaptation. (London, McFarland, 2005) pp132-147

Berri’s film adaptation of Germinal in C Smethurst: Germinal (Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature, No 39, 2005) pp 59-66

Was Judas a woman? Re-inventing Zola for the Cinema in H Thompson (ed) New Approaches to Zola (London: Emile Zola Society, 2004) pp.111 –120

Images de la femme chez Zola: la galerie synoptique de l’Argent. In Baron Philippe (ed), Femmes et Littérature, Annales de l’Université de Besançon, vol. 749, 2003, pp131-144

Critical essays in Tibbetts, JC and Welsh, JM (eds), The Encyclopedia of Stage Plays into Film (New York: Facts on File, 2001): Un Chapeau de paille d’Italie (pp. 48-49); La Folle de Chaillot (pp. 115-116); Marius (pp. 197-198); Orphée (pp.215-217); Les Parents Terribles (pp.223-224); La Ronde (pp.250-251); Tartuffe (pp.295-297); Topaze (pp.307-309); Volpone (pp.320-321).

Critical essays in The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (4th edition) Vol 1. Films [eds S and T Pendergast]:Gale Research, St James Press, London and Detroit, 2000: L'Arroseur arrosé pp 79- 80; La Bête humaine pp 119-122; Le Boucher pp 165-67; Le Voyage dans la lune pp 1298-1300; Z pp 1353-55

Critical essays in The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (4th edition) Vol 2. Directors [[eds S and T Pendergast] Gale Research, St James Press, London and Detroit, 2000: Jean Eustache, pp.302-304; Louis Lumière pp 631-633; Claude Miller pp 683-86; Jean Rouch pp 849-52

Critical essays in The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (4th edition) Vol 3. Actors and Actresses [eds S and T Pendergast]: Gale Research, St James Press, London and Detroit,2000: Danielle Darrieux pp 314-316; Jean Gabin pp 459-461; Annie Girardot pp 487- 488; Isabelle Huppert pp 591-594; Michèle Morgan pp 862-864; Philippe Noiret pp 900-903; Gérard Philipe pp 962-964; Michel Piccoli pp 966-968; Micheline Presle pp 986- 988; Jean-Louis Trintignant 1216-1218

Critical essays in The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (4th edition) Vol 4 Writers and Production Artists [eds S and T Pendergast] Gale Research, St James Press, London and Detroit ,2000: Henri Alekan pp 13-15; Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost pp 35-38; Raoul Coutard pp 184- 186; Jean d'Eaubonne; pp 206- 208; Henri Decaë pp 209- 211; Marcel Fradetal pp 291 -293; Maurice Jaubert pp 433-435; Lazare Meerson; pp 580-582; Alexandre Mnouchkine pp 610- 612; Bruno Nuytten pp 644-645; Jean-Paul Rappeneau pp 711-713; Claude Renoir, pp 719-720; Charles Spaak pp 807-809; Alexandre Trauner pp 866-868.

The heritage film and cultural politics: Berri’s Germinal (1993) in Powrie, P (ed) French Cinema in the 1990s: Continuity and Difference, OUP, 1999, pp. 25-36

Le Voreux: mine ou monstre? La question de la focalisation dans Germinal de Zola et trois versions filmées, in Baron, P (ed) Aspects de la critique, Annales de l'Université de Besançon, vol 88,1997 pp.57-72.

Zola and the cinema: the early versions of Germinal, in P Pollard (ed), Emile Zola Centenary Colloquium 1893-1993. London, 1995, pp 113-126.

Autour de Zola, Lang et Human Desire, in Woollen, G (ed) La Bête humaine: texte et explications, University of Glasgow Fench and German Publications, 1990, pp. 83-99

Literature and Film: a structuralist approach to adaptation and narrative in Hayward, S (ed) European Cinema Conference papers, AMLC press, 1985, pp 122-40.

‘Un Saccard nouvelle forme’: the genesis of the protagonist’s role in Zola’s L’Argent, in Burns, CA (ed) Literature and Society, Birmingham, 1980, pp 66-78.

Journal articles

Revisiting Decadence: Vadim’s version of Zola’s La Curée, Literature/Film Quarterly vol 32 no 4, 2004, pp 265-271

Antoine’s version of La Terre: an experiment in naturalist filmmaking. Excavatio, vol 17, nos 1-2, 2003, pp. 94-105

Teaching Realist literature through film: the example of Germinal. CILT Occasional Papers, vol.1, 2003, pp 5-8

The Rougon-Macquart at eighteen frames per second: early screen ‘picturizations’ of Zola’s fiction, Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, French Institute, London, no.26, pp. 26-34

A qui La Faute? Re-subverting the subversive: Franju’s reworking of Zola’s Garden of Eden story. Excavatio vol. xv, nos 3-4, 2001, pp 63-73.

Zola’s shifting narrative perspectives: the challenge to the filmmaker. Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, vol 23, 2001, pp 24-31

Adapting Zola for TV: the example of Jacques Rouffio’s l’Argent. Excavatio, vol. xii, 1999, pp 153-161.

One of our number is... Germinal. Traducing Zola in fiction and film title. Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, vol. 17,1998, pp. 9-14

Nana as star vehicle: the Christian-Jaque/Martine Carol version of Zola's novel. Excavatio, vol IX, 1997, pp.172-82

The Serialization and publication of L'Argent: the genesis of a literary event in France and in England, Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, vol 14,1996, pp 9-14

The marketing and reception of Claude Berri's Germinal. Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, vol 12,1995, pp 3-11

Sanitizing Zola; Dorothy Arzner's problematic Nana, Literature/Film Quarterly, vol 23, No 3,1995 pp 209-215

The Allégret/Spaak Germinal: film mineur ou film minable ? Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, vol 11, 1995, pp 3-13

Refracting Zola: The cinematic prisms of René Clément and Roger Vadim, Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, vol 7, 1994, pp 14-22

Ideology and focalisation in Gervaise: the Aurenchébost treatment, Excavatio vol. 2, 1993, pp 1-10

Co-authored with RE Hallmark and I Pickup. European student exchanges: the litre and the pint pot?, French Studies Bulletin, 45, 17-l9

Perceptions of Paris in nineteenth century realist texts, Francophonie, No 7,1993, pp. 28-31

Filmographie de l'Affaire Dreyfus, Les Cahiers Naturalistes, vol 66,1992, pp. 323-4

Co-authored with RE Hallmark and I Pickup. Evaluating Year Abroad Study Programmes, Higher Education Quarterly, 46, No 1, 144-147

The Dreyfus Affair and the Cinema, Bulletin of The Emile Zola Society, vol 3, 1991, pp 11-1

A Dreyfus Filmography, Bulletin of the Emile Zola Society, vol 3,1991, pp 13-14

Zola's mutating narratives: from Pot-Bouille to the House of Lovers. Bulletin of The Emile Zola Society, vol I, 1990, 11-13

With C.A. Burns. Lettres inédites d'Emile Zola à Ernest Vizetelly (1900-1902). Les Cahiers Naturalistes, vol 64, 1990, pp. 105-33

Didactic voices and surrogate moralists in Zola's fiction. Francophonie, no 1, 1990,pp 44-48

Co-authored with RE Hallmark and I Pickup. Preparing for the Year Abroad: savoir faire or laissez faire? French Studies Bulletin, 36, 1990, pp. 14-16

Co-authored with RE Hallmark and I Pickup. Inter-University Co-operation and ERASMUS. Higher Education Quarterly vol 44, no 1, 1990, pp 82-97

Recasting Zola: Gérard Philipe’s influence on Duvivier’s Pot-Bouille, Literature/Film Quarterly, vol 17 no 3, 1989, pp 142-48

With CA Burns Lettres inédites d’Emile Zola à Ernest Vizetelly (1894-99) Les Cahiers Naturalistes, vol 63, 1989, pp 51-90

Adapting Zola for the silent cinema the example of Marcel l’Herbier, Literature/Film Quarterly vol 12 no 1 pp 42-49

Film and French studies, University Vision, vol 15 1976, pp 14-23

Web Publication

Zola et le cinéma, Filmographie, Filmographie de l’Affaire Dreyfus, France à la carte, Institut Français,1998,