Censorial Interferences in the Dubbing of Foreign Films in Fascist Italy: 1927-1943
RÉSUMÉ S’inspirant du projet d’Italia Taglia et de son étude de la censure visuelle et des autorisations de projection en Italie, le présent article a pour but d’explorer les interférences liées à la censure dans les versions doublées en italien de films étrangers projetés pendant la période fasciste. L’étude se concentre sur les pratiques liées à l’exclusion de texte verbal dans la langue cible, et illustre la réécriture à travers le processus de traduction des dialogues contenant des références dérangeantes à la politique, à la morale, et à la religion. Nous expliciterons l’influence des commissions de censeurs sur les studios de doublage ainsi que le rôle des censeurs dans le processus de traduction, lorsqu’ils ajustent et négocient le contenu des versions doublées en italien. ABSTRACT Drawing insights from the project of Italia Taglia and its study on visual censorship and screening certifications in Italy, this contribution sets out to explore the censorial interferences in the Italian dubbed versions of foreign films that were publicly screened during Fascism. This study looks at practices behind the exclusion of verbal text in the target versions and highlights the rewriting of translated dialogues which contained uncomfortable political, moral and religious references. It will account for the influence of the film censorship commissions over the dubbing studios and show how the censors interfered with the process of translation, adjusting or negotiating the contents of the Italian dubbed versions.
American House of Cards in Persian: culture and ideology in dubbing in Iran
ABSTRACT The present study aimed to investigate the censorial interference in the Persian dubbing of the first four seasons of House of Cards (2013–2017) broadcast on the Iranian national television. To that end, a multi-modal comparison was made between the Persian-dubbed version and the original one to find out firstly, the content considered inappropriate for public broadcasting and secondly, what cases had the potential to be censored but have been kept purposefully. Based on the results, in both visual and acoustic modes, censorship was applied to several verbal and non-verbal issues, which were categorized into three thematic groups: religious, socio-cultural, and political. It was also found that, although a considerable number of issues were censored in this dubbed version, some issues typically censored in official dubbed films and series were kept intact for ideological and political reasons. This leniency in censorship seems to serve as an effective propaganda tool against the American government.
Traducción y censura de textos cinematográficos en la España de Franco: doblaje y subtitulado inglés-español (1951-1975)
La presente tesis doctoral, enmarcada en la rama descriptiva de los estudios de traduccion, proporciona la evidencia necesaria para la mejor comprension del funcionamiento de la traduccion y censura de textos cinematograficos importados en la Espana de Franco. Una vez de limitados el marco metodologico y contextual, elaborado un corpus textual (presentado en CD adjunto) de 3107 producciones originales en ingles estrenadas de 1951 a 1975, establecido el objeto de analisis (guion original, traducido y censurado - GO, GT, GC-) y esbozadas las lineas generales de una aproximacion analitica (descomposicion, comparacion y recomposicion de guiones a nivel macrotextual y microtextual), se ha elaborado un modelo de analisis en el que destaca el establecimiento de la "unidad de sincronia traducida (UST)" y la "unidad de sincronia adaptada (USA)" como respectivas herramientas basicas de los analisis comparativos GT-GO y GC-GT a nivel microtextual. El analisis (sobre cinco muestras representativas del corpus) de los cambios formales y semanticos practicados por el traductor y/o la censura externa y de su repercusion a nivel pragmatico ha demostrado, entre otras cosas, que la autocensura seguia los presupuestos de la censura externa y era la norma textual por excelencia del traductor-tipo de la epoca.#