Representing Translation

Dror Abend-David is Lecturer at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Florida, USA. He is the author of Scorned My Nation: A Comparison of Translations of The Merchant of Venice into German, Hebrew and Yiddish (2003) and the editor of Media and Translation (2014). He has published extensively on translation in relation to media, literature, and Jewish culture.

• Introduction, Dror Abend-David (University of Florida, USA)Chapter 1: Imagining Translation and TranslatorsAn Introductory NoteThe Evolution of the "Universal Translator": Technical Device and Human Factor in Doctor Who and Star TrekFrom the 1960s to the Present, Erga Heller (Kaye Academic College of Education, Israel)GlossaryChapter 2: The Translator as ProtagonistAn Introductory NoteIn search of a Chinese Hamlet: Translation, Interpretation, and Personalities in Postwar Film-Cultural Exchange, Ying Xiao (University of Florida, USA)GlossaryChapter 3: Translators as Social (Double) AgentAn Introductory NoteMediating Violence: Three Film Portrayals of Interpreters’ Dilemmas as Participants in Conflict, Kayoko Takeda (Rikkyo University, Japan)GlossaryChapter 4: Translation and Translators in New MediaAn Introductory NoteReactions to Audiovisual Adaptation on Social Media: The Case of How To Get Away With Murder, Chiara Bucaria (University of Bologna, Italy)GlossaryChapter 5: Translation and/as Global CommunicationAn Introductory NoteCross-Languaging Romance on Screen, Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna, Italy)GlossaryChapter 6: “They have eyes, but they [could see better]”An Introductory NoteAudio Description for All? Enhancing the Experience of Sighted Viewers through Visual Media Access Services, Iwona Mazur (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)GlossaryChapter 7: Translating TranslationAn Introductory NoteTranslating Multilingual Films in a South African Context, Zoë Pettit (University of Greenwich, UK)GlossaryChapter 8: Translation and Localization in AdvertisementAn Introductory NoteLocalization Strategies in English-Chinese Advertisement Translation, Ying Cui (Shandong University, China) and Yanli Zhao (Shandong University, China)GlossaryChapter 9: The “Non-Translation”An Introductory NoteYiddish, Media and the Dramatic Function of Translation - or What Does It Take to Read Joel and Ethan Coen's film, A Serious Man?, Dror Abend-David (University of Florida, USA)Glossary List of Contributors Index

A great contribution to translation scholarship [which] will serve as a very valuable and welcome resource for both students and academics.