Europe

[Czech Republic] [Denmark] [France] [Germany] [Great Britain- England, Scotland and Wales] [Greece] [Hungary] [Ireland] [Italy] [Netherlands] [Russia] [Spain] [Sweden]

• Czech Republic

  Books
   

  • Prague: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Paul Wilson, Ed.,
    Whereabouts Press, 1995

  • From Da to Yes: Understanding the East Europeans, Yale Richmond,
     Intercultural Press, 1995

  • The Good Soldier Schweik (dir. Karel Stekly, 1956)

  • Kolya (dir. Jan Sverak, 1996)

  • Zelary (dir. Ondrej Trojan, 2003)

   

• Denmark  

  Books:

  • "Smilla's Sense of Snow" by Peter Høeg (1992)

  • "Stolen Spring" by Hans Scherfig (1940)

  • "Seven Gothic Tales" by Karen Blixen (1934)

  • "Out of Africa" by Karen Blixen (1937)

  • "Arabia Felix" by Thorkild Hansen (1962)

  • "Havoc" by Tom Kristensen (1930)

  • "Selected Poems" by Henrik Nordbrandt (1981)

  
  Films:  

  • Adams Æbler (Adam¹s Apples) by Anders Thomas Jensen (2005)

  • Efter Brylluppet (After the Wedding), by Susanne Bier (2006)

  • Baenken (The Bench, 2000), Arven (The Inheritance, 2003), and Drabet (Manslaughter, 2005), a trilogy by Per Fly

  • Festen (The Celebration), by Thomas Vinterberg (1998)

  • Den eneste ene (The One and Only), by Susanne Bier (1999)

  • Mifunes sidste sang (Mifune's Last Song), by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1999)

  • Nordkraft (Angels in Fast Motion), by Ole Christian Madsen (2005)

  • After the Wedding (dir. Susanne Bier, 2007)

   

• France  

   

  • Au Contraire! Figuring Out the French, Gilles Asselin & Ruth Mastron
    Intercultural Press, 2001

  • France Since 1945, by Robert Gildea, Oxford University Press

   

• Germany
  • These Strange German Ways, Susan Stern, Atlantic-Brücke1994
  • Three Men on the Bummel, by Jerome K. Jerome, 1st World Library

   

   

• Great Britain

• Watching the English:  The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour, by Kate Fox, Hodder & Stoughton

• Greece
   
  • A Traveler's Literary Companion , Artemis Leontis, Ed.

    Whereabouts Press, 1997
  • Exploring the Greek Mosaic: A Guide to Intercultural Communication in Greece,
    Benjamin J. Broome, Intercultural Press, 1996
  • Never on Sunday (dir. Jules Dassin, 1960)
     
• Italy
   
  • Italy: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Lawrence Venuti, Ed., Whereabouts Press, 2003
  • The Italians:  A Full-Length Portrait Featuring Their Manners and Morals, by Luigi Barzini, Touchstone
  • La Bella Figura:  A Field Guide to the Italian Mind, by Beppe Severgnini, Broadway Books

  Netherlands
   

  • From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians, Yale Richmond, Intercultural Press, 1992
  • Antonia's Line (dir. Marleen Gorris, 1995)

   

• Russia
   
  • From Nyet to Da: Understanding the Russians, Yale Richmond, Intercultural Press, 1992
  • The Master and Margarita, by Mikhai Bulgakov, Vintage International

   

• Spain
   
  • Madrid: A cultural and literary companion, Elizabeth Nash

     Interlink Books, 2001
  • Spain Is Different, Helen Watley-Ames, Intercultural Press, 1999
  • 19th and 20th century Spain to 1936:
    Charles J. Esdaile, SPAIN IN THE LIBERAL AGE, 1808-1939 [an informed textbook]
    Gerald Brenan, THE SPANISH LABYRINTH [an older book but still very valuable]
  • Franco, the Civil War, and Franco's Regime, 1936-1975:
    Paul Preston, FRANCO [a long biography, but the best one among many]
    Stanley G. Payne, THE FRANCO REGIME, 1936-1975
  • Since Franco:
    Richard Gunther, Jose Ramon Montero, and Joan Botella, DEMOCRACY IN MODERN SPAIN,
    or
    Victor M. Perez-Diaz, THE RETURN OF CIVIL SOCIETY: THE EMERGENCE OF DEMOCRATIC SPAIN
  • The Sea Inside (dir. Alejandro Amenábar, 2004)
  • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 1988)

   

  Sweden
   
  • Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman, 1978)