Below are the Spanish film and literature titles set for the EDEXCEL A level starting from September 2016.
All the titles are available to buy from us (order details at the bottom of the page)
DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA /MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (15) 2004 ARGENTINA SALLES,W/THOMAS D DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Based on the journals of Ché Guevara, this coming-of-age road movie follows the adventures of the young medical student Ché (Gael García Bernal) and his friend Alberto Granada (Rodrigo de la Serna) as they cross South America on motorbikes in the early 1950s, on their way to take up their medical residency at a leper colony in Peru.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHING NOTES
EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO/PANS LABYRINTH (15) 2006 SPAIN TORO, GUILLERMO DEL £17.99
An adult fairy tale set in 1944 Spain, where both fantasy and reality are sinister and malevolent.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
LA LENGUA DE LAS MARIPOSAS/BUTTERFLY’S TONGUE (15) 1999 SPAIN JOSE LUIS CUERDA £19.99
A school boys friendship with his teacher is tested with the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
MATERIALES CURSOS ANTERIORES SPANISH LANGUAGE GUIDE
SPANISH LANGUAGE GUIDE WRITTEN BY PAULA PERERO CHAVARRÍA
MACHUCA (15) 2004 CHILE WOOD, ANDRES £19.99
Andres Woods semi-autobiographical film is set in Chile in 1973.
SPANISH FILM NOTES BY ANA VALBUENA
MAR ADENTRO/SEA INSIDE (PG) 2004 SPAIN AMENABAR, ALEJANDRO £19.99
The real-life story of the paralysed Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE WRITTEN BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
LOS SIN NOMBRE/NAMELESS(18) 1999 SPAIN BALAGUERÓ, JAUME £19.99
Mother receives a telephone call for her young daughter (who she believed died five years before) demanding she find her before ‘they’ kill her
TODO SOBRE MI MADRE/ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (15) 1999 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
On the death of her son a single mother goes to find the boys father, a transvestite named Lola who does not know he had a child Level: AS, A2 Subject: Spanish, Women, Gender, Film Studies, Media Studies, PSHE & Citizenship
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
VOCES INOCENTES/INNOCENT VOICES (12) 2004 MEXICO MANDOKI, LUIS £19.99
Set in El Salvador in the 1980s, an eleven-year-old boy who suddenly becomes the’man of the house’ after his father abandons the family in the middle of a civil war
Level: GCSE topic: relationships, first love AS / A Level topic: war, third world
SPANISH LANGUAGE PRE FILM STUDENT GUIDE
SPANISH LANGUAGE POST FILM STUDENT GUIDE
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY CARMEN HERRERO AND ANA VALBUENA
VOLVER (15) 2006 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
After her death, a mother returns as a ghost, to fix a family situations she couldn’t resolve during her life.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE WRITTEN BY CARMEN HERRERO
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: VOLVER : FILM STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL SPANISH
Scene, character and theme in Volver, this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the film and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471891786 2017 - £11.99
ALLENDE, ISABEL: LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITOS
Entertaining family saga spanning four generations, with an eccentric cast of men, women and spirits.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788483462034 - £12.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
Black Swan. ISBN: 9780552995887 - £8.99
DVD - HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (15) 1993 AUGUST, BILLE IN ENGLISH £15.99
Isabelle Allende's bestselling romantic novel with dashes of politics and 'magic realism' set in Chile, is turned into an international co-production epic filmed in Portugal with an all-star cast.
ALLENDE, ISABEL: EVA LUNA
Story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788497592512 - £11.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - EVA LUNA
Penguin Books ISBN: 9780241951651 - £7.99
BORGES, JORGE LUIS: FICCIONES
Anthology of wildly original and influential collection of tales
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788499089508 - £12.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - FICTIONS
Penguin Books. ISBN: 9780141183848 - £8.99
ESQUIVEL, LAURA: COMO AGUA POR CHOCOLATE
Set in revolutionary Mexico the book is a comic fairy tale of romance, repression, revolution and cooking in the all-female De La Garza family.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Punto de lectura. ISBN: 9788466329088 - £12.80
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
Black Swan. ISBN: 9780552995870 - £7.99
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL SPANISH
This accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471890109 2017 - £11.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL SPANISH SET TEXT
Oxford Literature Companions provide the support needed to get a deeper understanding of the AS/A Level set texts. This guide for Como agua para chocolate is ideal for use in the classroom or for independent revision, providing insight into characters, theme and language,with activities in Spanish that prompt a closer analysis of the text.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418375 2018 - £9.50
DVD - COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE/LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (15) MEXICO 1993 ARAU, ALFONSO £15.99
Mexico’s biggest international hit, based on Laura Esquivel’s novel, it’s a captivating comic fairy tale of romance, repression, revolution and cooking.
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL: CRÓNICA DE UNA MUERTA ANUNCIADA
Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers, twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788497592437 - £11.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD
Penguin Books ISBN: 9780241968628 - £8.99
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: CRONICA DE UNA MUERTE ANUNCIADA : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL SPANISH
Breaking down each scene, character and theme in Cronica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold), this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471890130 2017 - £11.99
GRANDE, ALMUDENA: MODELES DE MUJER
Seven stories about women exploring the themes of love, obsession, body image and self-empowerment.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Tusquets Editores ISBN: 9788483106020 - £6.95
LAFORET, CARMEN: NADA
Eighteen-year old Andrea moves to Barcelona to pursues her dreams of studying at university and moves into a crumbling apartment with an eccentric collection of misfits whose psychological ruin and violent behaviour echoes that of the recent civil war.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
ISBN: 9788423342792 - £11.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - NADA
Vintage. isbn: 9780099494195 - £8.99
LORCA, FEDERICO GARCIA: BODAS DE SANGRE
Play is set in a village community in Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn together in the face of an arranged marriage.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Cátedra ISBN: 9788437605609 - £11.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - BLOOD WEDDING
Methuen ISBN: 9780713685169 - £9.99
DVD - BODAS DE SANGRE/BLOOD WEDDING (U) 1981 SPAIN SUARA, CARLOS £15.99
Antonio Gades and his troupe rehearse and perform a flamenco ballet version of Lorca's tragedy of outraged honour and revenge. Filmed in a bare day-lit studio, director Carlos Saura concentrates on the gestures, ceremony and conventions in the ballet itself injecting the story with dramatic and cinematic passion.
LORCA, FEDERICO GARCIA: LA CASA DE BERNADA ALBA
Widow Bernarda Alba and her five daughters are in mourning, however the daughters want top break free, in this tale of the repression of women within Catholic Spain before the Spanish Civil War.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Alianza - El Libro de Bolsillo ISBN: 9788420671772 - £13.75
BILINGUAL EDITION - THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA : LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA
Methuen Drama ISBN: 9780713686777 - £9.99
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL SPANISH
Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471891960 2017 - £11.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL SPANISH SET TEXT
Oxford Literature Companions provide the support needed to get a deeper understanding of the AS/A Level set texts.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418368 2018 - £9.50
SÁBATO , ERNESTO: EL TÚNEL
Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Colección Austral. ISBN: 9788432248368 - £9.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE TUNNEL
PENGUIN. ISBN: 9780141194547 - £8.99
SENDER, RAMON: RÉQUIEM POR UN CAMESINO ESPAÑOL.
Catholic priest Mosén Millán is preparing requiem mass to celebrate the life of a young peasant named Paco killed by the Nationalist in the Spanish Civil War. As he waits we hear the Priests thoughts and feelings.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Booket Planeta ISBN: 9788423342396 - £9.95
Manchester University Press. ISBN: 9780719032226 - £10.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - REQUIEM FOR A SPANISH PEASANT
Aris & Phillips Ltd isbn: 9780856687822 - £15
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