New Trends in Audiovisual Translation

Jorge Díaz Cintas is Senior Lecturer in Translation at Imperial College London. He is the author of numerous articles and books on subtitling, including Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling (co-written with Aline Remael, 2007), Media for All (co-edited, 2007), The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation (edited, 2008) and Audiovisual Translation: Language Transfer on Screen (co-edited, 2008). Since 2002, he has been the president of the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation. He is a member of the international research group TransMedia.

Essential reading for all those interested in Audiovisual Translation, this volume contains relevant material of considerable interest to anyone looking for a broad understanding of this emerging field. The comprehensive and updated introduction written by the editor and the remarkable selection of innovative and exciting articles make this stimulating contribution a valuable and helpful tool that will appeal to researchers, teachers and students interested in this dynamic field of translation.

• 1. Introduction - Audiovisual Translation: An Overview of its Potential - Jorge Díaz CintasPART 1 – Crossing Cultural Borders2. Subtitling Against the Current: Danish Concepts, English Minds - Henrik Gottlieb3. Connecting Cultures: Cultural Transfer in Subtitling and Dubbing - Zoë Pettit4. The Codification of Nonverbal Information in Subtitled Texts - Elisa Perego5. Translating Proper Names into Spanish: The Case of Forrest Gump - Isabel Hurtado de Mendoza Azaola6. Frenching the Feature Film, Twice – Or le synchronien au débat - Luise von Flotow7. Subtitling the Italian South - Abele Longo8. Main Challenges in the Translation of Documentaries - Anna MatamalaPART 2 – Juggling with Humour9. Strategies for the Dubbing of Puns with One Visual Semantic Layer - John D. Sanderson10. Translating Humour: The Dubbing of Bridget Jones’s Diary into Spanish - Nieves Jiménez Carra11. Dubbing The Simpsons in Spain: A Case Study - Marta Muñoz Gil12. The Translation of Audiovisual Humour in Just a Few Words - Maria José Veiga13. Gender Portrayal in Dubbed and Subtitled Comedies - Marcella De MarcoPART 3 – Dealing with Linguistic Variation14. Dubbing English into Italian: A Closer Look at the Translation of Spoken Language - Maria Pavesi15. The Translation of Swearing in the Dubbing of the Film South Park into Spanish - María Jesús Fernández16. The Translation of Compliments in Subtitles - Silvia Bruti17. Greek Soldiers on the Screen: Politeness, Fluency and Audience Design in Subtitling - Olga Gartzonika and Adriana Şerban