Paul Julian Smith is distinguished professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of nineteen books, including Mexican Screen Fiction: Between Cinema and Television, Amores Perros, and Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar. He was a juror at the Morelia and San Sebastián International Film Festivals and is a columnist at Film Quarterly.
Introduction; Text
performance
psychoanalysis; 1. Yerma and the doctors: García Lorca
Marañón
and the anxiety of bisexuality; 2. Black Wedding: García Lorca
Langston Hughes
and the translation of introjection; 3. Poet in Paris: Asi que pasen cinco anos (When Five Years Pass)
Corydon
and the truth of anamnesis; 4. Garcia Lorca and the socialists: subsidised cinema
Pasqual's public
and the identification of affect; Conclusion; 'Doing Lorca'.
