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This paper will re-examine current AV translation practices from a film studies perspective through director Kon Satoshi's full-length animated feature Sennen joyû (Millennium Actress, 2001), a film that employs, and expects, a fairly deep and broad knowledge of Japanese history and culture.In this film, where the protagonist recounts her life in movies in a realistic historical setting, cinematic imagery becomes the primary medium of communication. Narrative action and dialogue, considered the main components of cinema by many viewers, take a back seat. The real "story" is the history of one of Japan's proudest cultural products: live action cinema, particularly that of the "golden age" of the 1950s and 60s.The aim of this paper is not simply to "translate" for the uninitiated viewer the many components of Millennium Actress that cannot be efficiently communicated through standard subtitles. Instead, this film is an ideal vehicle for demonstrating the shortcomings of current AV translation, which is primarily text-based.As recent studies show, technology-savvy "fansubbers" are using methods that challenge not only how we think about subtitling, but the process of AV translation it

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Author

Ortabasi, Melek

Publisher

Multilingual Matters and Channel View Publications; Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Routledge; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 0907-676X)

Published

2007

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)