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A ground-breaking study of the roles played by foreign languages in film and television and their relationship to translation. The book covers areas such as subtitling and the homogenising use of English, and asks what are the devices used to represent foreign languages on screen?
A ground-breaking study of the roles played by foreign languages in film and television and their relationship to translation. The book covers areas such as subtitling and the homogenising use of English, and asks what are the devices used to represent foreign languages on screen?
Acknowledgements Introduction Mimesis and Film Languages The Dream of Instant Translation Before and Beyond Subtitles Subtitling and the Ethics of Representation Where are the Subtitles? Metalepsis, Subtitling and Narration Multilingualism and Screen Translation Notes Bibliography Filmography Index