Del i serien Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Translation and the Myth of Universal Cinema

A Critical Translational Perspective on Film

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This volume serves to question the long-standing claim of the universality of film from the perspective of translation. Through a strategic analysis of the role of subtitles and dubbing in the industry, the book discusses how film translation has been instrumentalized to expand mainstream film’s universalist agenda.The book engages in a critical discussion of the state-of-the-art of Audiovisual Translation, using it as a jumping-off point to explore the idea of film as translational space and the translation process as a film-transformative practice. Exploring such issues as subtitling, dubbing, and the representation of translation and translators on film in a range of case studies, the volume demonstrates how the two disciplines are anchored in a common goal of universal appeal, rooted in aesthetics of Western modernity, and work in concert to serve or defy that goal. Across the book’s four chapters, the critical translational perspective is employed to revisit classic texts by Christian Metz, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Miriam Hansen, David Bordwell, and Slavoj Žižek and to propose detailed analysis of films by Ingmar Bergman, Abbas Kiarostami, and Denis Villeneuve.This book will be of interest to students and scholars in Translation Studies, Film Studies, comparative literature, and continental philosophy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-12-16
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Antal sidor182
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032292779

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Introduction. The translational and the universal in cinema, Chapter 1. Theorizing film universality: A translational account, Chapter 2. Subtitling, dubbing, and the production of film universality, Chapter 3. Translated film as a promise of authenticity, Chapter 4. The translational perspective on film: Three studies, Afterword. For a film-translation interdiscipline, Bibliography, Filmography, Index

"Translation and the myth of universal cinema takes us on a theoretically rich and intriguing journey into the history and geo-politics of film making and the complex function of translation within this ever evolving terrain. A much needed, highly original interdisciplinary contribution that is bound to become a key reference in the field."- Mona Baker, University of Oslo“Translation and the Myth of Universal Cinema masterfully conveys the idea that all films are always in need of, and are engaged in, translation. With wonderful clarity and insight, Kapsaskis places Translation Studies and Film Studies into an invigorating and mutually nourishing dialogue – demonstrating that translation is not an excessive supplement to film, but rather at the very core of how it operates.”- William Brown, The University of British Columbia