Paul Julian Smith

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Paul Julian Smith is a university professor specializing in Spanish and Mexican cinema and television. He is also a film critic.

He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Hispanic studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. [1] [2]

He is a regular contributor on Spanish-language film for the British Film Institute magazine Sight & Sound [3] and was a columnist for Film Quarterly [4]

Career

Smith was the Professor of Spanish at Cambridge University between 1991 and September 2010. [5]

He was elected a fellow of The British Academy in 2008. [6]

In 2010 he joined the CUNY Graduate Center as Distinguished Professor. [7]

Notable works include Writing in the Margin, [8] the first systematic application of poststructuralist critical theory to literature of the Spanish Golden Age; The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture, [9] a study of Spanish urban space; and a biography of Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Paul Julian Smith". CUNY Graduate Center. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Smith, Paul Julian". worldcat.org. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Paul Julian Smith". Archived from the original on August 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Paul Julian Smith".
  5. ↑ "Former members of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese".
  6. ↑ "Six University scholars elected to British Academy | University of Cambridge". 2008-07-18.
  7. ↑ "Paul Julian Smith".
  8. ↑ Smith, Paul Julian (1988). Writing in the Margin: Spanish Literature of the Golden Age. Clarendon Press. ISBN   9780198158479.
  9. ↑ Smith, Paul Julian (2000). The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture (Oxford Hispanic Studies). Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780198160007.
  10. ↑ Smith, Paul Julian (2000). Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar. Verso. ISBN   9781859843048.
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