Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema
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The original foreign film--its sights and sounds--is available to all, but the viewer is utterly dependent on a translator and an untold number of technicians who produce the graphic text or disconnected speech through which we must approach the foreign film. A bad translation can ruin a film's beauty, muddy its plot, and turn any joke sour. In this wide-ranging work, Ab Mark Nornes examines the relationships between moving-image media and translation...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0816650411
ISBN13:9780816650415
Release Date:January 2008
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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