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Spanish Culture: Art, Cinema and Literature

Spanish Culture: Art, Cinema and Literature

Code	8576
Year	1
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	História das Culturas
Mode of delivery	Lessons of practical-theoretical nature. There are also sessions of tutorial guidance.
Work placements	There are no work placements.
Learning outcomes	This course aims to study Spanish culture, focusing mainly on their artistic, literary and cinematographic creations. 1. Demonstrate a comprehensive and complex view of Spain past and present days. 2. Show an enlarged view of the fundamental works of Spanish painting. 3. Demonstrate knowledge of the main directors of Spanish cinema. 4. Produce a vision of the Spanish cultural treasures and of the main lines followed by his literature from its origins to the present.
Syllabus	1. The complexity of the Spanish mosaic. 2. The history of Spain: a synthetic view. 3. Monuments, landscapes, celebrations. 4. The splendor of the painting done in Spain: some examples. 5. History of Spanish cinema: the contemporary era. 6. Synoptic view of literature in Spanish, since the middle ages to the present day. 7. A preliminary discussion about scientific research. This syllabus develops through a series of points that deal with art, cinema and literature in the Spanish culture.
Main Bibliography	1. Main bibliography AA. VV. “Destino España: una crónica cultural a través de Corriere della Sera”, Barcelona, Lunwerg, 2004. AA. VV, "Historia de España", Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 1997, 14 vols. BENNASSAR, Bartolomé, “Histoire des Espagnols”, Paris, Armand Colin, 1985 (tr. esp. de Octavi Pellina, “Historia de los Españoles”, Barcelona, Crítica, 1989, 2 vols.). COBOS, J. (org.), "Clásicos y modernos del Cine Español", Madrid, Comisaría General de España in Expo Lisboa ´98, 1998. GARCÍA de CORTÁZAR, Fernando, “Atlas de Historia de España”, Barcelona, Planeta, 2006. VILAR, Pierre, “Histoire de l’Espagne”, Paris, PUF, 1947 (tr. Esp. de Manuel Tuñón de Lara e Jesús Suso Soria, “Historia de España”, Barcelona, Crítica, 2004).
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.