Dialogue Writing for Dubbing: An Insider's Perspective

By Giselle Spiteri Miggiani

Book Overview

This book analyses an important phase in the interlingual dubbing process of audiovisual productions: the elaboration of target language scripts for the recording studios. Written by a practitioner in the industry who is also an academic and trainer, it provides practical know-how and guidelines while adopting a scholarly, structural and methodical approach. Supported by an exemplified, analytical and theoretical framework, it is non-language specific and discusses strategies and tricks of the trade. Divided into three parts, the book provides a descriptive, practical and analytical approach to dubbing and dialogue writing. The author analyses scripts drawn from her own professional practice, including initial drafts that illustrate the various transformations of a text throughout the rewriting process. She also offers a 'backstage' perspective, from first-hand experience in recording sessions that enabled knowledge of text manipulation, studio jargon, and the dubbing post production process. This publication will provide a valuable resource for novice dubbing translators and dialogue writers, while offering practitioner insights to scholars and researchers in the field of Audiovisual Translation, Film and Media Studies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030049655
• ISBN13: 9783030049652
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"