Translating popular film and the intercultural imagination / Carol O'Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Sullivan, Carol.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xi, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

In recent years, foreign languages and subtitles have moved out of the arthouse into the multiplex, with films such as Dances With Wolves, The Last Samurai, Traffic and Inglourious Basterds. Foreign languages have always been part of popular cinema - think of The Third Man or Treasure of the Sierra Madre - but often foreign speech has been represented in English or reduced to the hubbub of voices in the background. This book deals with the tradition of foreign languages in the cinema, showing how a diverse range of devices and narrative conventions has evolved to represent and translate foreign languages for cinema audiences. Devices such as the translating dissolve, the close-up, the ludic subtitle and the narrational subtitle used in films from the silent period to the present are analysed in the light of cinema's mission to tell stories about characters who don't share a language with the cinema audience. Book jacket.

Contents:

Mimesis and Film Languages

The Dream of Instant Translation

Before and Beyond Subtitles

Subtitling and the Ethics of Representation

Where are the Subtitles? Metalepsis, Subtitling and Narration

Multilingualism and Screen Translation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9780230573918

0230573916

OCLC:

656768772