Fwd: CINEMA BABEL: Translating Global Cinema

[Aaron Gerow]

Markus's new book is out and it looks great!

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> Uncovering the vital role of interpreters, dubbers, and subtitlers  
> in the global traffic of film
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> CINEMA BABEL: Translating Global Cinema
> Ab? Mark Nornes
> University of Minnesota Press | 304 pages | 2007
> ISBN 978-0-8166-5041-5 | hardcover | $67.50
> ISBN 978-0-8166-5042-2 | paperback | $22.50
>
> In this wide-ranging work, Ab? Mark Nornes examines the  
> relationships between moving-image media and translation and  
> contends that film was a globalized medium from its beginning and  
> that its transnational traffic has been greatly influenced by  
> interpreters. Nornes?who has written subtitles for Japanese cinema? 
> discusses such topics as the translation of film theory,  
> interpretation at festivals and for coproductions, and ?talkies,?  
> subtitling, and dubbing.
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> "Cinema Babel is a remarkable book, providing a solid and essential  
> history of translation in cinema, as well as an indispensable model  
> for a new kind of global film studies."?Eric Cazdyn
>
> For more information, including the table of contents, visit the  
> book?s webpage:
> http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/N/nornes_cinema.html