Translating the Visual - A Multimodal Perspective

List of contents

Introduction
Part I

Chapter 1: Re-Illustration of Multimodal Texts as Translation: Uri Cadduri and Mr. Fibber the Storyteller

Chapter 2: The Effect of Re-Illustrations on the Treatment and Presentation of the Genre: Anonymous Bluffer the Great

Chapter 3: From Translation and Adaptation to Sequels: "Farewell, Red Balloon"
Part II

Chapter 4: Coping with Trauma as an Act of Translation: Waltz with Bashir

Chapter 5: Remediation and Hypermediacy: Ezekiel’s World

Chapter 6: Collaborative Self-Translation: Pizzeria Kamikaze
Part III

Chapter 7: Text, Music and Illustrations as Reciprocal Translation: The Sixteenth Sheep

Chapter 8: Drag Performance and Cultural Translation: The Case of Arisa

Concluding Remarks

About the author

Rachel Weissbrod is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her areas of research include theory of translation, literary translation into Hebrew, film and TV translation and the interrelation between translation and other forms of transfer.

Ayelet Kohn is a Senior Lecturer at The David Yellin College of Education, Jerusalem. Her research interests are the mutual relations between images and written texts in their sociological context. Her work looks into political graffiti, tourism posters, iconic photography, visual propaganda in social media, talkbacks and short documentary reportages.

Summary

This book offers insights into the translation and adaptation of illustrated texts, combined with analyses of translations and adaptations to address these works as multimodal entities, in which even the replacement of one component affects the whole.

Product details

• Authors: Ayelet Kohn, Rachel Weissbrod, Rachel (Bar-Ilan University Weissbrod, Rachel Kohn Weissbrod
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367730154
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73015-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Translation & interpretation, Communication Studies, Children's & teenage literature studies, Translation and interpretation, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general