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Culture and Society[Translation Spaces 5:2] 2016
► pp. 244–270
“Should she really be covered by her own subtitle?”
Text elements in film and their graphical translation
This article provides a first concept of typographic identity in film and the impact of audiovisual translation on it. Based on an analysis of 52 films, relevant text elements and their graphical translation strategies in film were identified. Finally, possible shortcomings and challenges such as collisions and the impact on a film’s typographic identity and image composition are discussed as a first basis for further studies
Keywords: reception, translation, film studies, subtitling, text elements, graphic design
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