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Translation goes to the movies / Michael Cronin

Author
Cronin, Michael, 1960-
Published
London, UK : Routledge, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 145 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Translation : the screen test -- The frontiers of translation : Stagecoach to Dances with wolves -- Translation howlers : A night at the opera to Borat -- The long journey home : Lost in translation to Babel -- The empire talks back : translation in Star wars.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
0203890809 (electronic bk.)
9780203890806 (electronic bk.)
9786611796310
6611796312
128179631X (ebk.)
9781281796318 (ebk.)
1134100213
9781134100217
0415422868 (Paper)
041542285X (Cloth)
9780415422857
9780415422864
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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