Film and Translation Studies

When novels are adapted for the cinema, directors and writers frequently make changes in the plot, setting, characterization and themes of the novel. Sometimes the changes are made in adaptations due to the distinctive interpretations of the novel, which involve personal views of the book and choices of elements to retain, reproduce, change or leave out. On the contrary, a film is not just an illustrated version of the novel; it is a totally different medium. When adapting the novel, the director has to leave out a number of things for the simple reason of time difference. Furthermore, other structures and techniques must be added to the film to enhance the beauty and impressions of it. Like a

Asians have been invisible in Hollywood lead roles. There have been many situations where another race has played an Asian role. When Asians do land a lead role it is very common to see pay difference between other ethnicity lead roles. Asian’s are very fimilar with service roles and not lead roles in films. Asian actors are still only a one percent of Hollywood’s leading roles. “According to a study that University of California, Los Angeles did out of the top 100 films in 2015, 49 of those films did not consist an Asian character and zero leading roles went to Asians (Levin 2017).” Asians seem be invisible when auditioning for lead roles.

In any adaptation between a work of literature to film it is difficult to stay exactly true to the original material. The film 3:10 to Yuma directed by James Mangold is no exception to making creative choices that weren’t in the short story created by Elmore Leonard. Characters may be altered or added in order to make a film flow more smoothly or to add another element to the story. In this essay I will investigate how the deviation of the addition of characters from text to film in the 1957 adaptation of 3:10 to Yuma changed the meaning of the film.

This Movie shows the reality of how Mexicans are brought to United States to work for the big companies doing all the nasty work that nobody wants to do. While they get to United States they already have a job but no training and very low salary. As for the female they are constantly facing sexual harassment by their supervisor. Portraying the Mexicans women's as sexpots and the supervisors as Latin Lovers. Since there was another scene when Sylvia had to have sex with Mike inorder to get a job in the factory. However Mike had many girls in the factory which he was having some type of relationship with them.

The purpose of this essay is to analyse the original drama text with a newer film version, while comparing the

Translators across the world will face problems through out their translation. One of these problems is allusion. An author referring to a person, or a place, or an event, in his\her book won't make a problem for readers from the same culture to figure it out, but it may cause a cross culture for readers from other culture.

However, this research contains a full and thorough explanation of three of these literary device, which in this case are reconstruction of events and scenes, the use of actual names and personal names and the use of figure speech and images used in his

Often children, because they integrate into a more popular language. They do this for an economic advantage.

In Spanish class recently, we watched a movie about a young girl named Marta, who faced many problems throughout a period of months. Whether it was family, or a boy she snuck around, Marta always wanted to help. But the one thing Marta hoped and dreamed for was a Quinceañera. When girls turn 15 years of age, it is optional to have one. But Marta worried because it was optional, she could end up not having one. This put a lot of stress on her.

Even though the memoir is for the most part a narrative of his family’s background, MacDonald establishes how the difficulties that he came up against while growing up are similar to those that everybody in Southie faced. Everyone in that neighborhood live in a place where violence and drugs are ordinary and typical of that area, yet each person is determined to approach those difficulties in different ways. Some people disregard the difficulties, vigorously turning a blind eye to fact that their difficulties stem from violence and drugs. Other residents enter a never-ending high, attempting to break away from the troubles and heartache of day-to-day life with every drug that criminals present them with. Some residents become even more involved

this thesis will comprise of four parts. The first part will provide some theoretical information concerning novels and film adaptations. The second part will introduce the author of the book, the director and it will also

Movie industry experts don’t seem to know what to do with Latinx films. They are unsure how the Latinx audience will react to the film or how much the films will make at the box office because the movies have a foreign element.

Liuzza begins his article by telling the reader that when a person translates a novel, all their shortcomings and biases are put on public display. What gave him the most anxiety while translating, however, was the “vague thing usually called tone”.

9. Charactonym – when a character’s name has some significance to his profile in the novel

Narrative films are crafted with the prime purpose of stimulating emotion for its viewers to experience and to communicate an overarching message. All films released are produced with objectives to express, which can range from, exposing audiences to concepts that they may be uneducated on or completely unaware of, to employing a fresh perspective on pivotal subjects. Some films even endeavour to introduce audiences to unfamiliar cultures and lifestyles. The 2006 film ‘Babel’ directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is a film that effectively presents foreign cultures to audiences who are unaccustomed to these ways of life. Babel is a multi-narrative film that shows four groups of people located in four different countries, Morocco, Japan,