Cinema Babel: Translating Global Cinema

by Abe Mark Nornes and Abé Mark Nornes

Book Overview

The original foreign film--its sights and sounds--is available to all, but the viewer is utterly dependent on a translator and an untold number of technicians who produce the graphic text or disconnected speech through which we must approach the foreign film. A bad translation can ruin a film's beauty, muddy its plot, and turn any joke sour.

In this wide-ranging work, Ab Mark Nornes examines the relationships between moving-image media and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081665042X
• ISBN13: 9780816650422
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"