Translation goes to the Movies - Hardcover

Cronin, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 041542285X ISBN 13: 9780415422857

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

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 mainstream commercial and arthouse films over the years, Cronin shows how translation has been a concern of filmmakers dealing with questions of culture, identity, conflict and representation. This book is a lively and accessible text for translation theory courses and offers a new and largely unexplored approach to topics of identity and representation on screen. Translation Goes to the Movies will be of interest to those on translation studies and film studies courses.

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About the Author:

Dublin City University, Ireland

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 041542285X
• ISBN 13: 9780415422857
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168