Research Guides: Global Cultural Studies: Spanish Resources

Spanish Studies Resources

(Ebook) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture
ISBN: 0415131871

Publication Date: 1999
(Ebook) Historical Dictionary of Spanish Cinema
ISBN: 9780810859579

Publication Date: 2010
(Ebook) The Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia
ISBN: 9781138649149

Publication Date: 2020
(Print) Medieval Iberia
Call Number: MOH Reference DP99 .M33 2003

ISBN: 9780415939188

Publication Date: 2002

Databases

Access World News
Full-text content of over 2,200 North American newspapers and more than 1,200 international newspapers, plus 300 wire services and over 200 broadcast news transcripts. Covers local, regional, and world issues, politics, government policies, sports, industries, cultural activities, schools, and the people and events in the community.
Contemporary World Music
Contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. Starting with over 2,000 albums, and over 29,500 tracks, regular additions are made to this collection.
Fuente Académica
Provides full text coverage to more than 150 scholarly, academic Spanish language journals from Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers. All content is in Spanish and covers wide variety of subjects including politics, history, literature and education.

Spanish Language Videos

Find Spanish Language DVDs in the Willamette University Libraries by clicking on this link,

Streaming Video Databases

Kanopy
Provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, tv series, and more. Do a search for the word Spain and sort by Global Studies & Languages OR search for the word Spanish and sort by Global Studies & Languages and you'll find a wonderful variety of films and programs about all the Spanish-speaking world.

Amerikanuak: Spanish Basque Immigrants Living in the American West [Kanopy]
Over half a century ago, many Basques left Spain, looking for a better life working as shepherds in the American West. The film reflects on the difficulties faced by these immigrants in a foreign land, their nostalgia for what was left behind, and their effort to preserve the Basque culture.

Academic Video Online [AVON]
Provides videos of documentaries, interviews, performances, and more. Contains more than 80,000 video titles spanning a range of subject areas including cinema studies.

The Making of Spain. Episode 3, Nation [AVON]
The cultures and religions that have shaped the Spain we know today are revealed over the course of a journey through its key cities -- Madrid, Granada, Cordoba, Seville and Cartagena -- in the company of historian Simon Sebag Montefiore....Simon explores Spain's golden age under Philip II through to the Spanish Civil War and dictatorship under Franco, from which Spain has emerged as a modern democratic monarchy.

Websites

Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
Digital library of the Spanish National Library. Provides free access to a wide variety of digitized texts, photographs, and maps from the medieval period to the present.
Diccionario de la lengua española (RAE)
Electronic version of the premier lexigraphic dictionary of Spanish. Produced by the Real Academia Española.
History of Spain: Primary Documents
A Collection of links from EuroDocs, a digital history portal that offers links to online facsimiles, transcriptions, and translations of European primary historical sources.

Follow this link to access Willamette Student Senior Japanese Studies Theses. You'll need to login with your Willamette ID to see the whole collection.

Spanish Theses

Follow this link to find other guides for Spanish Related courses

(Some of these are older courses and may not have been revised lately)