Towards a multidisciplinary approach in creative subtitling

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2012.4.6
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Creative subtitling, Aesthetics, Multidisciplinarity, Film studies, Audiovisual translation

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Rebecca McClarty
Queen’s University Belfast

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Standard subtitling practices have long been influenced, if not governed, by norms and conventions such as the Code of Good Subtitling Practice (Ivarsson & Carroll 1998). Yet recent research into film subtitling has begun to take a creative turn: a trend that is matched by increasing numbers of fansubs and professionally produced creative subtitles. This paper seeks to demonstrate the need for a multidisciplinary approach to creative subtitling and, by drawing upon principles from film studies, suggests some key features for the development of a creative subtitling practice.

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McClarty, R. (2014). Towards a multidisciplinary approach in creative subtitling. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (4), 133–153. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2012.4.6
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No. 4 (2012): Multidisciplinarity in Audiovisual Translation/Multidisciplinarietat en traducció audiovisual
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