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Reassessing Dubbing: Historical approaches and current trends
Edited by Irene Ranzato and Serenella Zanotti
[Benjamins Translation Library 148] 2019
► pp. 79–100

Chapter 4
Auteur dubbing

Translation, performance and authorial control in the dubbed versions of Stanley Kubrick’s films

Stanley Kubrick was one of the few film directors who took an active role in the creation of foreign-language versions. From A Clockwork Orange onwards, he personally chose the dubbing director for all the dubbed versions and had an active part in the voice casting (Chiaro 2007, Nornes 2007). By looking at a variety of sources, this chapter aims to illustrate the genesis of the dubbed versions of Kubrick’s films, focusing on the film director’s role and degree of intervention in the production process. It will be argued that, by overseeing all aspects of the dubbing process, Kubrick conferred a special status on the foreign-language releases of his films, which are to be regarded as authorized versions on which an unusually evident authorial imprint was imposed.

Keywords: dubbing, film translation, authorial control, Stanley Kubrick, archival research
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Stanley Kubrick and foreign-language versions
  • 3.Auteur dubbing
    • 3.1Shooting with a view to foreign-language versions
    • 3.2Choosing the dubbing director
    • 3.3Finding good translators
    • 3.4Controlling the translations
    • 3.5Voice casting
    • 3.6Mixing
    • 3.7Authorial choices
  • 4.Kubrick and dubbing
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Filmography
Published online: 6 August 2019
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