Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan
Book cover

Translating Popular Film

  • Book
  • © 2011

Overview

Authors:
  1. Carol O’Sullivan

    1. University of Portsmouth, UK

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
    Download chapter PDF

  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
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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?

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Carol O’Sullivan

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation