Translating Popular Film

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Carol O’Sullivan

   Pages 1-8

3. Mimesis and Film Languages

   • Carol O’Sullivan

   Pages 9-39

4. The Dream of Instant Translation

   • Carol O’Sullivan

   Pages 40-69

5. Before and Beyond Subtitles

   • Carol O’Sullivan

   Pages 70-101

6. Subtitling and the Ethics of Representation

   • Carol O’Sullivan

   Pages 102-142

7. Where Are the Subtitles? Metalepsis, Subtitling and Narration

   • Carol O’Sullivan

   Pages 143-175

8. Translating Multilingualism on Screen

   • Carol O’Sullivan

   Pages 176-203

9. Back Matter

   Pages 204-243

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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?

• English
• film
• Narration
• television
• translation

• University of Portsmouth, UK

  Carol O’Sullivan

CAROL O'SULLIVAN is Senior Lecturer in Language and Translation Theory at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where she teaches graduate courses in translation theory, translation history and subtitling. Her previous publications deal with the history and politics of translation; audiovisual translation; and film and popular culture.

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