Transmedial Perspectives on Humour and Translation

Loukia Kostopoulou is Senior Teaching and Research Fellow in the Department of Translation Studies at the School of French, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and coordinator of the Media Research Group (at AUTh SemioLab). Her publications and research interests revolve around transmediality/intermediality and translation, audiovisual translation, and film studies. She is the author of Intermediality in European Avant-garde Cinema (2023), co-editor of The Fugue of the Five Senses and the Semiotics of the Shifting Sensorium (2019), New Paths in Theatre Translation and Surtitling (2023), New Perspectives in Media Translation. Transcreating in the Digital Age (2024), and guest-editor of two forthcoming issues on intermedial crossovers in audiovisual media (Syn-thèses and Punctum).Vasiliki Misiou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation and Intercultural Studies at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. As a professional translator, she has collaborated with several institutions, theatres, and publishing houses. Her publications and research interests focus on gender and/in translation, theatre translation, literary translation, paratexts and translation, as well as translation and semiotics. She is the author of The Renaissance of Women Translators in 19th-Century Greece (2023), co-editor of New Paths in Theatre Translation and Surtitling (2023), and she is currently co-editing a special issue on Gender and/in Drama Translation in the journal Translation Studies.

"This volume makes stimulating inroads into the complex world of humour across lingual, modal and medial borders. In 11 chapters emerging and established scholars explore a wide range of humouristic phenomena and their translation across various media – from book, stage to film and TV and internet. In doing so, they broaden the view from a purely linguistic perspective to a transmedial one, bringing translation studies into dialogue with a range of other disciplines. It is a great merit of this carefully and masterfully edited volume that humour is taken seriously and that one still has fun reading it. In this sense, this volume is an essential textbook for readers across disciplines who are interested in the many forms of transmedial humour translation."- Klaus Kaindl, University of Vienna

• Contents, List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction: The transmedial turn in humour translation Loukia Kostopoulou and Vasiliki Misiou, 1 Humour translation theories and strategies, Patrick Zabalbeascoa and Salvatore Attardo, 2 Parody, pastiche, and remix in film and TV series Nicola M. Dusi and Greta Donati, 3 Translating literary humour: Aspects of detection and analogy making, Jeroen Vandaele, 4 From the page to the screen. Superlópez: Fun superheroes and transmedia Juan José Martínez Sierra, 5 Rewriting and redirection of the comedy and humour in Camilleri’s Montalbano series: Gains and shifts in translation and adaptation, Brigid Maher, 6 A grinning bite: Ilana Zeffren՚s translation of the news into comics Ayelet Kohn and Rachel Weissbrod, 7 Exploring theatre transmediality and humour translation in Aris Biniaris’s Animal Farm Vicky Manteli, 8 Postfeminist humour from page to stage to screen and in translation. Fleabag as a case in point Margherita Dore, 9 Lest the jokes fail: Trans-cultural transfer in humour fan-subtitling Jan Chovanec, 10 Humour in a multilingual world: Tacit translation in the age of the reel Delia Chiaro, 11 The multimodal rendering of “otherness” in the humorous discourse of image-macro memes Pietro Luigi Iaia, Index