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/