question on Studio Ghibli

[Katherine Mezur]

Dear All,  a silly question: Does anyone know the procedure for  
touring the Ghibli studios in Tokyo? thanks so much.
K

Katherine Mezur
Assistant Professor
School of Drama
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
kmezur at u.washington.edu

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On Mar 4, 2010, at 10:21 AM, Mark Nornes wrote:

> Dear Claudia,
>
> Be careful if you are making claims about the translations vis a  
> vis the historical contexts of the films. Subtitles for DVDs are  
> generally different than the original release subtitles. And I  
> suspect that in this genre, most fantasy films from Japan were  
> dubbed into English in the 60s and 70s. To be confident, you would  
> want to use a video where the subs were burned or printed onto the  
> celluloid. Even then, you would want to be careful.
>
> An alternative would be looking into the BFI or other archives for  
> any distributor collections. They might have materials like the  
> original subtitle list on paper. I saw materials like this in the  
> Academy library (though not for Japanese film). Even better, if  
> there are any of those distributors still around ask them directly.  
> And if you can identify translators by name, they might actually  
> have scripts in their own files.
>
> Good luck. I look forward to seeing your work!
>
> Markus
>
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> On Mar 3, 2010, at 6:06 PM, Claudia Anderson wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have posted here regarding the same research project before, and  
>> I have got to the stage of doing my own close analysis of subtitle  
>> translation of 3 films in different eras.  However, I am not so au  
>> fait with the range of fantasy films on offer, so I would be  
>> eternally grateful if somebody could suggest 3 Japanese fantasy  
>> film subtitles, one film from the 60s, one from the 80s, and one  
>> from this decade, and ones that have been subtitled into English.  
>> I am also looking for the scripts of the original japanese  
>> dialogues, and should be able to find them myself, but if anyone  
>> has links to those as well, that would be ideal. I have chosen the  
>> genre of fantasy due to its tendency to lend itself to  
>> opportunities for 'creative' translations.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Claudia
>>
>>
>

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