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Library Forum: Elena Iglesias Villamel, Ph.D. – Cultural Specific Item Translation Practices in Pedro Amodovar´s Cinema

Name: Library Forum: Elena Iglesias Villamel, Ph.D. - Cultural Specific Item Translation Practices in Pedro Amodovar´s Cinema
Start: 2023-04-27
End: 2023-04-27
Location: Library Pritchard Room

In this presentation, Iglesias Villamel will discuss the different issues that arise from translating Cultural Specific Items within the context of audiovisual translation. We will examine the taxonomy of cultural translation strategies designed by Pedersen, focusing on a corpus of Spanish-English subtitles selected among the movies of the renowned and controversial Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. Join us in person in the Pritchard Room or online via Zoom