The Routledge Handbook of Audio Description (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Taylor, Christopher; Perego, Elisa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 666
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000563139
• Artikelnr.: 63717409

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The question of accessibility



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



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



4. A cognitive approach to audio description: production and reception processes



5. Narratology and/in audio description



6. Linguistic and textual aspects of audio description



7. Audio description and culture specific elements



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



9. Audio description for the theatre: a research-based practice



10. Opera and dance audio description



11. Audio description for the screen



12. Museum audio description: the role of ADLAB PRO



13. Audio description in museums: a service provider perspective



14. Visitor studies: the impact of inclusive museum audio description experiences



15. Audio describing churches: in search of a template



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



17. Audio description: a public broadcaster's core business and headache



18. Profiling audio description service providers: a questionnaire-based snapshot



19. Research in audio description



20. Audio Description Software



21. Receptor Tools



22. Artificial Voices



23. Video games and audio description



24. Automating audio description



25. Audio description personalisation



26. Audio introductions



27. Audio subtitling



28. Audio description translation: a retrospective



29. Audio description translation: a pilot study Chinese/Spanish



30. Audio description for the non-blind



31. University training



32. In-house training: the course at Bayerischer Rundfunk



33. Audio description in the United States



34. Audio description in Canada



35. Audio description in Australia



36. Audio description in Russia



37. Audio description in Brazil



38. Audio description in Slovenia

Index

Rezensionen

"Spanning the breadth of audio-descriptive applications, this rich compendium shows that AD has finally come of age and is no longer the Cinderella of AVT. This book will be invaluable to anyone interested in accessibility, particularly researchers in AVT."

Dr Louise Fryer, audio describer and independent researcher