Book review
Marcella De Marco. Audiovisual Translation Through a Gender Lens
(Approaches to Translation Studies 37). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. 240 pp. ISBN 978-90-420-3513-3 €50 (pb).

Reviewed by Louisa Desilla
University of Surrey, UK
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De Marco’s Audiovisual Translation Through a Gender Lens is a very interesting and truly original piece of academic work. A restricted focus purely on linguistic features had dominated audiovisual translation (AVT) research for many years, with very little attention given to phenomena pertaining to culture and ideology. Since the beginning of the new millennium, scholars like Díaz-Cintas (2004) and Fawcett (2003) have called for a ‘cultural turn’ in the field and, inter alia, studies that would approach audiovisual translation from a gender perspective. De Marco’s (2006) research was one of the first attempts to occupy this niche along with Mazdon (2000), Baumgarten (2005) and Asimakoulas (2012).

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