American movies in Japan, subtitles in Europe

[Mark Nornes]

Susanne wrote:

>
> My theory is (and Japanese friends told me about that) that the Japanese
> audience had and has a very awkward feeling seeing Western foreigners
> speaking fluently Japanese (many of us will have had the same experience
> even now...). This "iwakan" favored subtitles,

I should add, then, that I left a modifier out of "subtitle country" in 
my previous post.  The Japanese writer (a subtitler trying to theorize 
Japanese subtitling practices) actually wrote, "yuniiku na jimaku no 
kuni". These writings often smell of such national chauvinism.

Markus