RECOMMENDED SOURCES – SPAIN Recommended Reading: a

RECOMMENDED SOURCES – SPAIN
Recommended Reading:
a) Cultural Reading:
Cervantes, Miguel de. Don Quijote.
Crow, John. The Root of the Flower. U.Cal., 1985.
Garcia Lorca, Federico. Three Tragedies.
Hooper, John. The New Spaniards. Penguin 2006.
Hughes, Robert. Barcelona.
Wattley-Ames, Helen. Spain is Different. 2nd ed. Maine: Intercultural Press, 1999.
b) Guidebooks:
- For information : Insight Guide Spain; The Rough Guide to Spain;
- For travel: Lonely Planet Spain Travel Guide; Blue Guide Spain; Let’s Go Spain; Travelers
Tales Spain.
c) Dictionary:
- The Oxford Spanish Dictionary. Unabridged. 3rd edition, Oxford; or abridged
Television: (www.wwitv.com)
• TVE – World News in Spanish language
• Telemadrid Set- Entertainment, music, sports and news.
• A3 Noticias 24- International news channel
• EsMadrid TV- Touristic Channel of Madrid
Spain Press:
• International Herald Tribune – www.iht.com
• El Pais – www.elpais.es (liberal; like New York Times)
• El Mundo – www.elmundo.es (moderate to conservative)
• ABC – www.abc.es (conservative)
• El Castellano – www.elcastellano.org
Movies: Guide Picks- Top Spanish-Langauge Videos (Spain)
• Amenabar, Alejandro. Abre los ojos. (Open Your Eyes) 1997. Mar adentro (The Sea Inside)
2004.
• Almodovar. All About My Mother 1999; Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1987; Volver 2007; Hable con ella (Talk to Her) 2002
• Bollain, Iciar. Flores de otro mundo (Flowers of Another World) (Latin-American immigrant
women in rural Spain) 1999
• Bollain, Iciar. Te doy mis ojos (Take My Eyes); domestic violence. 2003.
• Buñuel, Luis. Viridiana. 1961. One of greatest cinematographers of all time.
• Cuerda, José Luis. La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly)
• Erice, Victor. El espiritu de la colmena 1973. Civil War from a child’s eyes
• Leon de Aranoa. Barrio (adolescent delinquency); Princesas (prostitution); Los lunes al sol
(Mondays in the Sun) 2002.
• Medem, Julio. La pelota vasca (Basque Ball); Basque separatism and ETA; Amantes del
circulo polar (1998).
• Saura, Carlos. Ay, Carmela! (film about the Spanish Civil War)
• Saura, Carlos Blood Wedding; Carmen; Flamenco (dancing is exquisite)
• Zambrano, Benito. Solas (Alone)
Websites Resources for Spain:
• www.google.es
• http://www.sispain.org/
• http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/
• http://www.uni.edu/becker/Spanish2.html
• http://www.cervantes.es/