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) SET EDEXCEL SPANISH FILMS FROM SEPTEMBER 2016DIARIOS 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. 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 MACHUCA (15) 2004 CHILE WOOD, ANDRES £19.99 Andres Woods semi-autobiographical film is set in Chile in 1973. 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 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 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 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 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 JOIN OUR MAILING LIST CLICK HERE and type - MAILING LIST - in the E-mail subject line. HOW TO ORDEROrders can be submitted orders by email, fax, telephone or post
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