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Translation Spaces
Vol. 8:2 (2019) ► pp.193–230

A connected history of audiovisual translation

Elements for consideration

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Why do we need a history of audiovisual translation? The elements of such a history cannot be tackled without any context, especially outside of a history of cinema, understood both as an art made of techniques and a business. And what kind of history do we need? We try here to define the conditions and resources for a connected and comparative history and deal with a few methodological challenges.

Keywords: case studies, cinema innovation, comparative history, connected history, dubbing, methodology, subtitling
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.120 years of innovation
    • 2.1100-year anniversary
    • 2.2From technically analogue to digital
  • 3.The rapid emergence of cinema as an art and an industry
    • 3.1An international popular art
    • 3.2Options and policies for AVT
    • 3.3Questions of history
  • 4.Correlating technical innovations and AVT for a connected history
    • 4.11895 – around 1930: Cinema is neither mute nor silent
    • 4.2The transition to the talkies
    • 4.3Strategies for coping with languages
  • 5.Methodological challenges
    • 5.1Direct and indirect sources of information
    • 5.2Archives and databases
    • 5.3Electronic corpora
    • 5.4Oral history
  • 6.Concluding remarks
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 5 November 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.19011.gam
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