Translation goes to the Movies

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-42286-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 266 g

This highly accessible introduction to translation theory, written by a leading author in the field, uses the genre of film to bring the main themes in translation to life. Through analyzing films as diverse as the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the Opera, The Star Wars Trilogies and Lost in Translation, the reader is encouraged to think about both issues and problems of translation as they are played out on the screen and issues of filmic representation through examining the translation dimension of specific films. In highlighting how translation has featured in both mainstream commercial and arthouse films over the years, Cronin shows how translation has been a concern of filmmakers dealing with questions of culture, identity, conflict and representation. This book is a lively and accessible text for translation theory courses and offers a new and largely unexplored approach to topics of identity and representation on screen. Translation Goes to the Movies will be of interest to those on translation studies and film studies courses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cronin, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of film stills, Acknowledgements, Introduction: the full picture, 1 Translation: the screen test, 2 The frontiers of translation: Stagecoach to Dances with Wolves, 3 Translation howlers: A Night at the Opera to Borat, 4 The long journey home: Lost in Translation to Babel, 5 The empire talks back: translation in Star Wars, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Cronin