Table of Contents
Please note: This edition
is being phased out, and is being replaced by the 3rd
Edition.
Description
The second edition of Cinema
for Spanish Conversation includes the same stimulating exercises and
conversation materials that have made the first edition a success among
students and instructors alike. Using popular feature films, students hear
Spanish as it is spoken in different countries and in a wide variety of
situations and are encouraged to listen to and converse about the social and
cultural aspects of Spanish-speaking countries around the world.
Features
The second edition includes a
high-interest reading for each chapter; reading selections include interviews,
magazine or newspaper articles, and selections from film scripts or literary
pieces. Each reading is followed by an activity. These readings are optional;
they can be covered in-depth if reading is one of the goals of the course.
Each chapter is devoted to one
movie, and contains appropriate vocabulary, cultural notes, special terms for
conversation and composition, a focus on a specific scene for structured
discussion or writing, questions for review and understanding, and quotations
from directors or critics. Difficult-to-find or older films have been replaced
by films of more immediate interest to students.
MOVIES NEW TO THIS EDITION:
María llena
eres de gracia [Maria Full
of Grace],
Diarios de
motocicleta [The
Motorcycle Diaries], and Mar adentro [The Sea Inside].
You may purchase the films on
Amazon.com by following the links below
taken from the Table of Contents
Hombres
armados
El
norte
Como
agua para chocolate
Danzón
María
llena eres de gracia
Todos
somos estrellas
Diarios
de motocicleta
De
eso no se habla
La
historia oficial
Caballos
salvajes
Fresa
y chocolate
Nueba
Yol
Guantanamera
Belle
Epoque
¡Ay,
Carmela!
Mujeres
al borde de un ataque de nervios
Todo
sobre mi madre
Mar
adentro
Market
The text is designed to be used in
courses in which outstanding films from the Spanish-speaking world are used as springboards
for classroom Spanish-language discussion.
About the Authors
Mary McVey Gill has co-authored many widely adopted
textbooks in Spanish, including En contacto: Gramatica en accion (8th
edition), En contacto: Lecturas intermedias (8th edition), Hablemos
español (6th edition), and Tune Up Your Spanish. She has also
co-authored Streetwise Spanish and Streetwise Spanish
Dictionary/Thesaurus.
Deana Smalley (B.A. in Spanish,
University
of
Oregon; M.A. in Hispanic
literature,
New York
University; Ph.D. in Hispanic literature,
Purdue
University)
has taught at a variety of colleges and universities, including the
University of
Wisconsin-Madison,
Stanford
University
and
Santa Clara
University. She began to incorporate
film into her language, culture and literature classes early in her teaching
career. She is the author of web activities, video activities and test banks
for major Spanish textbook companies.
María-Paz Haro (Valencia, Spain) is Professor of
Spanish (Emerita) at Stanford University where she has taught several courses
on Spanish and Spanish American Cinema including "Spanish Society Through
the Eye of the Camera", "The Films of Pedro Almodovar",
"Women in Film and Film by Women", and "Cinema of the Southern
Cone". She participates in Film Conferences and publishes on Spanish
Cinema.
Additional Information
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