Speaking in Subtitles Revaluing Screen Translation

With over 6,000 languages in the world today, media speak is far from universal, but the complexities of translation are rarely acknowledged by the industry, or by audiences and scholars. Redressing this neglect, Speaking in Subtitles argues that the oddities and idiosyncrasies of translation are vital to screen media's global storytelling. Examining a range of examples from crowdsourced subtitling to avant-garde dubbing to the growing field of 'fansubbing', Tessa Dwyer proposes that film, television and video are fundamentally 'translational' media.

Tessa Dwyer is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne.

Introduction

Section 1 | Devaluation to Deconstruction
1. Sub/Dub Wars
2. Vanishing Subtitles: The Invisible Cinema (New York, 1970-1974)
3. Dubbing Undone: Can Dialectics Break Bricks? (1973)

Section 2 | Errant and Emergent Practices
4. Mistranslation and Misuse
5. Fansubbing and Abuse
6. Streaming, Subbing, Sharing: Viki Global TV

Conclusion: Error Screens