Audiovisual Translation - Language Transfer on Screen

Audiovisual Translation: Language Transfer on Screen introduces the reader to the fascinating subject of translating films and other audiovisual programmes for the television, the cinema, the Internet and the stage and the problems the differences between cultures can cause. Addressing a wide range of issues in a clear and comprehensive way, the various chapters have been written by some of the leading experts in the field and boast a wide range of coverage. Offering a balance between theory and practice, the contributors provide an interesting and engaging overview of topics such as subtitling, surtitling, dubbing, voice-over, and interpreting without forgetting new developments in the field of accessibility to the media for viewers with sensory impairment, such as subtitling for the deaf and audio description for the blind. This is an up-to-date account of one of the most complex and dynamic areas in the translation discipline, seen by many as the quintessence of translation activity in the twenty-first century.