Reassessing Dubbing

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Despite a long tradition of scholarship and the vast amount of dubbed audiovisual products available on the global market, dubbing is still relatively underrepresented in audiovisual research. The aim of this volume is to give dubbing research its due by showing that, far from being a doomed or somewhat declining form of AVT, it is being exploited globally in the most diverse and fruitful ways. The contributions to this collection take up the diverse strands that make up the field, to offer a multi-faceted assessment of dubbing on the move, embracing its important historical past as well as present and future developments, thus proving that dubbing has really come a long way and has not been less ready than other AVT modes to respond to the mood of the times. The volume will be of interest for scholars and students of translation studies, audiovisual translation, linguistics, film, television and game studies. Reassessing Dubbing Editorial page Title page Copyright page Table of contents The dubbing revolution References Filmography Part I. Historical approaches Chapter 1. Undoing dubbing: Singin’ in the Rain Tracing origins Dubbing deconstructed Sounding foreign Conclusion References Filmography Chapter 2. When the Thief of Bagdad tried to steal the show: The short-lived dubbing of Hollywood films into Arabic in the 1940s Mapping dubbing and subtitling in 1930s-1950s Arabic-Speaking Countries The language of the colonizer: French-dubbed U.S. films Dubbing into Arabic: An effort to expand Hollywood’s market The success of Persian-dubbed films The demise of the Arabic dubbing strategy Conclusion References Filmography Chapter 3. Locked into dubbing: Retracing the origins, establishment and fortune of Italy’s mainstream AVT practice Introduction 1. No country for subtitles: The silencing of foreign-language talkies (1929–1933) 2. Italians do it better: The production of Italian talkies abroad and the move to Rome 3. Some like it subbed: The press and the public voice their opinion 4. Old habits die hard: The dubbing monopoly under democracy 5. Concluding remarks References Filmography Chapter 4. Auteur dubbing: Translation, performance and authorial control in the dubbed versions of Stanley Kubrick’s films 1. Introduction 2. Stanley Kubrick and foreign-language versions 3. Auteur dubbing 4. Kubrick and dubbing 5. Conclusions References Filmography Part II. New trends in dubbing research and practice Chapter 5. Audiovisual translation in the age of digital transformation: Industrial and social implications 1. The new world of audiovisual media and localization 2. Technological shifts in the world of audiovisual translation 3. New habits after digitalization: Focus on dubbing 4. Active and passive audiences 5. Audiovisual translation as a social and political tool Acknowledgements References Filmography Chapter 6. Are we all together across languages?: An eye tracking study of original and dubbed films 1. Introduction 2. Key concepts in eye-tracking research and beyond 3. Eye tracking and audiovisual translation 4. Grand Budapest Hotel: An eye-tracking study 5. Conclusion References Filmography Chapter 7. Fandubbing across time and space: From dubbing ‘by fans for fans’ to cyberdubbing 1. Introduction 2. Historical approaches and current trends in fandubbing 3. Motivations behind cyberdubbing: Fandom, nostalgia and discontent 4. Final remarks References Chapter 8. To Europe with love: Woody Allen’s liquid society 1. Introduction 2. The polylingual conundrum 3. Concluding remarks Acknowledgements References Websites Filmography Part III. The linguistics of dubbing Chapter 9. More than words can say: Exploring prosodic variation in dubbing 1. Introduction 2. The prosodic-pragmatic interface 3. Where prosody meets dubbing 4. Dubbing prosodic features from English into Spanish 5. Concluding remarks Acknowledgements References Filmography Chapter 10. Representing orality through questions in original and translated film dialogue 1. Introduction 2. Direct questions from conversation to fictive orality 3. Translation universals 4. The study 5. Discussion 6. Conclusion References Appendix Chapter 11. English films vs Italian films: A comparative analysis via the Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue and the WordSmith Tools 1. Introduction 2. The Pavia Corpus of Film Dialogue 3. Methodology 4. Results and discussion 5. Conclusions References Part IV. Identity construction in dubbing Chapter 12. Sleeping with the fishes: Italian Americans in animation Introduction The Shark Tale issue Shark Tale: Cultural and linguistic representation of Italian Americanness Shark Tale in Italian dubbing Concluding remarks References Films and TV series Chapter 13. Constructing youth identities in dubbed movies: A view from Italy 1. Youth language and spontaneous speech 2. Youth language and dubbing 3. Aims and objectives 4. Material and methodology 5. Results and discussion 6. Discussion and conclusion References Filmography General index Name index