The Routledge Handbook of Audio Description (Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

644 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000563153

Related ISBNs:

9781032227320, 9780367434199, 9781003003052

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/07/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Christopher Taylor and Elisa Perego

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Language Arts, Communication

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Christopher Taylor

Edited by:

Elisa Perego