The Routledge Handbook of Audio Description -

The Routledge Handbook of Audio Description

Buch | Softcover
644 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-22732-0 (ISBN)
54,85 inkl. MwSt
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of Audio Description, the practice of rendering the visual elements of a multimodal product. This is the essential guide and companion for advanced students, researchers and Audio Description professionals within translation studies and media accessibility.
The American Council of the Blind (ACB) Recipient of the 2022 Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl Audio Description Achievement Award for Research and Development

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of audio description, the practice of rendering the visual elements of a multimodal product such as a film, painting, or live performance in the spoken mode, for the benefit principally of the blind and visually impaired community. This volume brings together scholars, researchers, practitioners and service providers, such as broadcasters from all over the world, to cover as thoroughly as possible all the theoretical and practical aspects of this discipline.

In 38 chapters, the expert authors chart how the discipline has become established both as an important professional service and as a valid academic subject, how it has evolved and how it has come to play such an important role in media accessibility. From the early history of the subject through to the challenges represented by ever-changing technology, the Handbook covers the approaches and methodologies adopted to analyse the “multimodal” text in the constant search for the optimum selection of the elements to describe.

This is the essential guide and companion for advanced students, researchers and audio description professionals within the more general spheres of translation studies and media accessibility.

Christopher Taylor is Full Professor (retired) of English Language and Translation at the University of Trieste, Italy. He is author of Language to Language (CUP, 2000) and more than eighty articles on general translation, audiovisual translation and audio description. Elisa Perego is Associate Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Trieste, Italy. She is author of Accessible communication: A cross-country journey, and numerous articles on audiovisual translation, audio description, and language simplification.

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction






The question of accessibility



Access services for the blind and partially sighted: a social and legal framework for the promotion of audio description



A profile of audio description end-users: linguistic needs and inclusivity



A cognitive approach to audio description: production and reception processes



Narratology and/in audio description



Linguistic and textual aspects of audio description



Audio description and culture specific elements



"Ut pictura poesis": the rendering of an aesthetic artistic image in form and content



Audio description for the theatre: a research-based practice



Opera and dance audio description



Audio description for the screen



Museum audio description: the role of ADLAB PRO



Audio description in museums: a service provider perspective



Visitor studies: the impact of inclusive museum audio description experiences



Audio describing churches: in search of a template



The audio description professional: a sociological overview and new training perspectives



Audio description: a public broadcaster’s core business and headache



Profiling audio description service providers: a questionnaire-based snapshot



Research in audio description



Audio Description Software



Receptor Tools



Artificial Voices



Video games and audio description



Automating audio description



Audio description personalisation



Audio introductions



Audio subtitling



Audio description translation: a retrospective



Audio description translation: a pilot study Chinese/Spanish



Audio description for the non-blind



University training



In-house training: the course at Bayerischer Rundfunk



Audio description in the United States



Audio description in Canada



Audio description in Australia



Audio description in Russia



Audio description in Brazil



Audio description in Slovenia

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Zusatzinfo 43 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 1229 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-22732-X / 103222732X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-22732-0 / 9781032227320
Zustand Neuware
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