This course will cover contents about the academical and the daily culture of Spain and the Basque Country. It's a course designed to help the foreigner postgraduate students of the University of Deusto to integrate in the daily life of Bilbao and San Sebastian.

1. Introduction to Spanish & Basque
Culture. Unit 5
Guillermo Gómez
ggomez@deusto.es
http://profesorenapuros.es/culture
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2. What will we talk about?
Cultural icons: literature,
music, sports, cinema...
Do you want to meet
for a drink?

3. Spanish Cinema
➔ Representative of “la movida
madrileña”.
➔ 2 Oscar: Todo sobre mi
madre (1999, best foreign
movie) & Hable con ella (2002,
best script)
Pedro Almodóvar (1949)

4. Spanish Cinema
➔ 1 Oscar: Mar adentro (2005,
best foreign movie)
➔ Tesis (1996), Abre los ojos
(1997), Los Otros (2001), Ágora
(2009)
Alejandro Amenábar (1972)

5. Spanish Cinema
➔ Vacas (1992), La ardilla roja
(1993), Los amantes del
Círculo Polar (1998), Lucía y el
sexo (2000), Habitación en
Roma (2010).
Julio Médem (1958)

6. Spanish Cinema
➔ Cría cuervos (1975), Bodas
de sangre (1981), Carmen
(1983), ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990),
Flamenco (1995), Buñuel y la
mesa del Rey Salomón (2001)
Carlos Saura (1932)

7. Spanish Cinema
➔ Un perro andaluz (1929)
➔ Viridiana (1961)
➔ 1972: best foreign movie: El
discreto encanto de la
burguesía.
Luis Buñuel (1900-1983)

8. Spanish Cinema
8 apellidos vascos, the latest blockbuster

9. “La movida madrileña”
The crazy 80’s in Spain

10. Spanish music
Joan Manuel Serrat
Joaquín Sabina Singer-Songwriters

11. Spanish music
Some of the greatest hits in the 80’s
Los secretos
Mecano
Nacha Pop

12. Spanish music
The list of best-selling last week:
● Abraham Mateo
● Melendi
● David Bustamante
● India Martínez
● El Barrio
● Juan Magan
● Enrique Iglesias
● Pablo Alborán
● Pablo López
● Auryn
Nowadays popular songs

13. Basque music
Modern pop-rock
Fito & Fitipaldis
Ken Zazpi
Gatibu

14. Spanish comics: TBO
● Mortadelo y Filemón
● El botones Sacarino
● 13 Rue del Percebe
Francisco Ibáñez (1936)

15. Spanish literature
Siglos de Oro:
Cervantes
Two great moments in the history of Spanish Literature
&
Don Quijote
1927 Generation:
Lorca

16. Spanish literature
Todas las almas (1989)
Corazón tan blanco (1992)
Tu rostro mañana (2002,
2004 & 2007)
Los enamoramientos (2011)
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
La tabla de Flandes (1990)
El club Dumas (1993)
La piel del tambor (1995)
El Capitán Alatriste (1996, 1997,
1998, 2000, 2003, 2006 & 2011)
Nowadays famous authors Javier Marías

17. Spanish Literature
Nowadays Spanish best-sellers

18. Sports
Spanish idols

19. Sports
Spanish idols

20. Sports
Spanish idols

21. Do you want to meet
for a drink?

22. You’ve met some spanish friends and you go to a bar. After several
beers, it’s time to pay… But how should we do it?
I pay for my
beers?
I pay for
everyone?
We share the
bill?
What is
normal here?

23. “Pagar a escote”
Invite “Poner bote”
“Hacer un sinpa”
Pay individually

24. Photographies’ source
All the photos in this
presentation are licensed
under Creative Commons
terms of use (except the
movie posters & books).
➔ Quijote
➔ Friends
➔ Almodóvar
➔ Amenábar
➔ Médem
➔ Saura
➔ Buñuel
➔ 8 apellidos vascos
➔ Radio Futura
➔ Sabina
➔ Serrat
➔ Ibáñez
➔ Logo Mortadelo y Filemón
➔ Cervantes
➔ Lorca
➔ Javier Marías
➔ Pérez-Reverte
➔ Rafa Nadal
➔ Gemma Mengual
➔ Pau Gasol
➔ Edurne Pasaban
➔ Gerard Piqué
➔ Almudena Cid
➔ Fernando Alonso
➔ Amaya Valdemoro
➔ Miguel Indurain
➔ Snowing in Georgia
➔ Euros
➔ Creative Commons