Article outline

• Translational approaches: A short overview
  • Equivalence theories
  • Systemic approaches
• Translation as mediation between cultures: The concepts domestication and foreignization
  • “Skopos”-theory
• Film as a distinctive medium
• A Dry White Season: Skopos, manipulation, domestication and foreignization
  • Skopos
• Translation
• Manipulation, domestication and foreignization
• Mise-en-scène-elements as manipulative, domesticative or as elements of foreignization: A semiotic interpretation within a cinematographic sign system
• The choice of actors
• Acting style
• The novel and the film
• Space as manipulation
• Direct environment
• Superposition and background projection
• Sound
• Notes