Cfp: Building Bridges between Film Studies and Translation Studies
Call for papers for a Special Issue of inTRAlinea guest-edited by Juan José Martínez-Sierra and Beatriz Cerezo-Merchán ( Universitat de València).
Abstract deadline: 15 December 2015
Article submission deadline: 30 November 2016
Final publication: Autumn 2017
Articles can be submitted in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish.
Audiovisual Translation has become a recognized disciplinary area in the last 15-20 years, while the origin of Film Studies dates back to almost a century ago. Still, it is possible – and perhaps necessary – to continue promoting new interdisciplinary/cross-disciplinary venues of research that can lead to new breakthroughs in these two fields.
This special issue hopes to promote an innovative perspective, in which Translation Studies and Film Studies come together. The links between audiovisual texts and film language are undeniable, so it is absolutely necessary to bring together the fields of Translation Studies and Film Studies, in order to foster a deeper understanding of these connections.
Although some researchers have started to tackle this issue (such as Chaume, 2004, Remael, 2004, Cattrysse and Gambier, 2008, Martínez-Sierra, 2012, and some articles from the 2012 special issue of MonTI), interdisciplinary research that brings together Audiovisual Translation and Film Studies is rare, especially from a specifically cinematographic standpoint. This special issue aims to gather a series of contributions, both theoretical and applied, that bridge the gap between these two disciplinary areas and explore the links between them. We actively encourage submissions from scholars in Film Studies.
Possible topics for articles include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Audiovisual translation and film history
- The influence of script writing on audiovisual translation
- The influence of the technical aspects of film (i.e. camera angles, shots, camera movements, etc.) on audiovisual translation
- The influence of the signifying codes of film on audiovisual translation (i.e. linguistic, paralinguistic, musical, special effects, photographic or iconographic codes)
- The film industry and audiovisual translation
- Technological changes in the film industry and their influence on audiovisual translation
- The application of film studies to the development of creative subtitling strategies
- Experimental research and reception studies: the impact of audiovisual translation on the audiovisual product
- The inclusion of film language concepts (script writing, signifying codes, technical aspects) in audiovisual translation teaching and practice
- Accessible filmmaking: the integration of audiovisual translation and accessibility during the filmmaking process
- Remakes as a form of translation: the creation of new audiovisual texts based on the adaptation of foreign products
- Translating from the page to the screen: the adaptation of comics into films
- Cinema, identity, and translation
- Cinema, ideology, and translation
- Cinema, politics, and translation
Key Dates
15 December 2015 Deadline for submission of abstracts (300 words)
15 February 2016 Selected contributors notified of acceptance of abstracts
30 November 2016 Deadline for submission of full papers
30 March 2017 Confirmation of acceptance of papers
30 June 2017 Deadline for submission of final, revised versions of papers
Autumn 2017 Publication
Submission Instructions
Abstracts (in English) of 300 words should be sent to the guest editors at juan.j.martinez@uv.es and beatriz.cerezo@uv.es. They must be accompanied by the author’s email address, institution, telephone number, and postal address.
Articles based on accepted abstracts should be 6000–9000 words in length, and can be submitted in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. They will be sent to the guest editors at juan.j.martinez@uv.es and beatriz.cerezo@uv.es, together with an abstract of 300 words plus five keywords (both in English and in the language of the article) and a 50-word biographical note on the contributor (in English).
Authors should consult Intralinea’s stylesheet, which can be downloaded at: http://www.intralinea.org/uploads/general/Intralinea_Stylesheet.doc
Only original articles that do not duplicate previously published work, including the author’s, and are not under review by another journal or collection will be considered.
Posted by Juan José Martínez Sierra & Beatriz Cerezo Merchan on 15th Sep 2015 in News: Call for Papers
inTRAlinea [ISSN 1827-000X] is the online translation journal of the Department of Interpreting and Translation (DIT) of the University of Bologna, Italy: www.intralinea.org.