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 translation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816650411
• ISBN13: 9780816650415
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"