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Fawlty Towers. The portrayal of foreign characters in the series

Author : Selina Schuster
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656494312
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Fawlty Towers. The portrayal of foreign characters in the series written by Selina Schuster and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3, University of Paderborn (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Hauptseminar 'Humour', language: English, abstract: Fawlty Towers, a British television series from the 1970’s, written by John Cleese and Connie Booth is famous for its eccentric characters, farcical humour and unintentionally funny moments. The life of Basil Fawlty, the choleric and perpetually overworked owner of a slightly run-down sea front hotel, his constantly nagging wife Sybil and their good-hearted but maltreated employees, the maid Polly and the Spanish waiter Manuel, is depicted throughout the series. All of them try to keep the hotel running and the guests satisfied despite several incidents and self-made catastrophes. Due to the fact that the series focuses on a hotel, plenty of different guests visit the hotel Fawlty Towers during the 12 episode run of the series. Almost every visit leads to copious amounts of awkward situations and there’s always something Basil Fawlty dislikes about his clientele - may it be their outer appearance, personal taste, social class or their cultural background. Bearing that in mind this homework will take a closer look at the portrayal of foreign characters throughout the series and their interactions with the British hotel staff. After a short introduction to the series and its main protagonists I’m going to point out how foreigners and people of different cultural backgrounds are portrayed in the series and which aspects of their behaviour or cultural peculiarities are made fun of. Furthermore, I will take a closer look at the English characters of the series as well. How do they interact with the foreign characters? Which stereotypes, prejudices or clichés towards the different nationalities do exists in the minds of British people and how does the series Fawlty Towers make fun of them?

Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture

Author : Carl Rhodes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134239378
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture written by Carl Rhodes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges traditional organizational theory, looking to representations of work and organizations within popular culture and the ways in which these institutions have also been conceptualized and critiqued there. Through a series of essays, Rhodes and Westwood examine popular culture as a compelling and critical arena in which the complex and contradictory relations that people have with the organizations in which they work are played out. By articulating the knowledge in popular culture with that in theory, they provide new avenues for understanding work organizations as the dominant institutions in contemporary society. Rhodes and Westwood provide a critical review of how organizations are represented in various examples of contemporary popular culture. The book demonstrates how popular culture can be read as an embodiment of knowledge about organizations – often more compelling than those common to theory – and explores the critical potential of such knowledge and the way in which popular culture can reflect on the spirit of resistance, carnivalisation and rebellion.

On Translating French Literature and Film II

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004433481
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book On Translating French Literature and Film II written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Were They Thinking?

Author : David Hofstede
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780823084418
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book What Were They Thinking? written by David Hofstede and published by Watson-Guptill Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TV is never short of bad ideas, as demonstrated in a guide to one hundred of television's most memorable blunders and bloopers, arranged in a count-down format and including information on each incident that seeks to answer the question of "Why did this happen?" Original.

Humour Translation in the Age of Multimedia

Author : Margherita Dore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000205460
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Humour Translation in the Age of Multimedia written by Margherita Dore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to investigate how humour translation has developed since the beginning of the 21st century, focusing in particular on new ways of communication. The authors, drawn from a range of countries, cultures and academic traditions, address and debate how today’s globalised communication, media and new technologies are influencing and shaping the translation of humour. Examining both how humour translation exploits new means of communication and how the processes of humour translation may be challenged and enhanced by technologies, the chapters cover theoretical foundations and implications, and methodological practices and challenges. They include a description of current research or practice, and comments on possible future developments. The contributions interconnect around the issue of humour creation and translation in the 21st century, which can truly be labelled as the age of multimedia. Accessible and engaging, this is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in Translation Studies and Humour Studies.

International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Actors and actresses

Author : Tom Pendergast
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Actors and actresses written by Tom Pendergast and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over two thousand entries, arranged alphabetically within four volumes, that provide information about significant films, actors and actresses, directors, and writers and production artists in North American, British, and West European cinematic history. Includes photographs and indexes.

International dictionary of films and filmmakers

Author : Amy L. Unterburger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book International dictionary of films and filmmakers written by Amy L. Unterburger and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Adapting Television and Literature

Author : Blythe Worthy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031508327
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Adapting Television and Literature written by Blythe Worthy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Subtitling

Author : Jorge Díaz Cintas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317378687
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Subtitling written by Jorge Díaz Cintas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitling: Concepts and Practices provides students, researchers and practitioners with a research-based introduction to the theory and practice of subtitling. The book, inspired by the highly successful Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling by the same authors, is a new publication reflecting the developments in practice and research that mark subtitling today, while considering the way ahead. It supplies the core concepts that will allow its users to acquaint themselves with the technical, linguistic and cultural features of this specific yet extremely diverse form of audiovisual translation and the many contexts in which it is deployed today. The book offers concrete subtitling strategies and contains a wealth of examples in numerous languages for dealing with specific translation problems. State-of-the art translation technologies and their impact on the profession are explored along with a discussion of the ways in which they cater for the socio-political, multicultural and multilingual challenges that audiovisual productions and their translations must meet today. A truly multimedia package, Subtitling: Concepts and Practices comes with a companion website which includes a wide range of exercises with answer keys, video clips, dialogue lists, a glossary of concepts and terminology used in the industry and much more. It also provides access to a professional desktop subtitle editor, Wincaps Q4, and a leading cloud-based subtitling platform, OOONA.

Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture

Author : Rupa Huq
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780932588
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture written by Rupa Huq and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives. Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted in meaning and form.

Stereotypes in British Comedy

Author : Andreas Barthel
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656336504
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Stereotypes in British Comedy written by Andreas Barthel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 1, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The term paper examines – portrayed by the example of the 1970s British comedy series Fawlty Towers – in what way comedy can shape the personal attitudes towards other communities and nations. The first part gives a definition of the term 'stereotype' and provides possible sources and origins. The second part examines a variety of ways in which these stereotypes are put on display in several scenes of »Fawlty Towers«, against whom they are directed and what messages they are intended to convey. The third part puts the focus on the ‘German question’ and sketches out, by the help of several current online newspaper articles and research findings, what consequences and effects stereotypes about the German nation have taken on the British society and why Germany keeps constantly associated with its Nazi past. Furthermore, it tries to offer proposals to find a remedy.

Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation

Author : Elena Di Giovanni
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263930
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation written by Elena Di Giovanni and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coming of age of audiovisual translation studies has brought about a much-needed surge of studies focusing on the audience, their comprehension, appreciation or rejection of what reaches them through the medium of translation. Although complex to perform, studies on the reception of translated audiovisual texts offer a uniquely thorough picture of the life and afterlife of these texts. This volume provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of reception studies related to audiovisual translation and accessibility, from a diachronic and synchronic perspective. Focusing on all audiovisual translation techniques and encompassing theoretical and methodological approaches from translation, media and film studies, it aims to become a reference for students and scholars across these fields.

From Satellite to Single Market

Author : Richard Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134681275
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book From Satellite to Single Market written by Richard Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Collins explores public service television's role in fostering pan-European cultural identity. Based on extensive primary research, interviews with participants and analysis of key European programmes, this book documents the growth of the public service satellite television network which was backed by the European Union, and its eventual alliance with Rupert Murdoch's commercial Sky network.

TV Guide

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book TV Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Introductory History of British Broadcasting

Author : Andrew Crisell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134538057
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book An Introductory History of British Broadcasting written by Andrew Crisell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introductory History of British Broadcasting is a concise and accessible history of British radio and television. It begins with the birth of radio at the beginning of the twentieth century and discusses key moments in media history, from the first wireless broadcast in 1920 through to recent developments in digital broadcasting and the internet. Distinguishing broadcasting from other kinds of mass media, and evaluating the way in which audiences have experienced the medium, Andrew Crisell considers the nature and evolution of broadcasting, the growth of broadcasting institutions and the relation of broadcasting to a wider political and social context. This fully updated and expanded second edition includes: *the latest developments in digital broadcasting and the internet *broadcasting in a multimedia era and its prospects for the future *the concept of public service broadcasting and its changing role in an era of interactivity, multiple channels and pay per view *an evaluation of recent political pressures on the BBC and ITV duopoly *a timeline of key broadcasting events and annotated advice on further reading.

Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse

Author : Janet Holmes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443824372
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Femininity, Feminism and Gendered Discourse written by Janet Holmes and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this book illustrate a range of cutting edge research in language and gender studies, with contributions from a number of internationally recognised experts. The three themes, femininity, feminism and gendered discourse are central to research in language and gender, and the book thus makes a valuable contribution to a number of current debates. Femininity comprises a central aspect of gender performance and the process of “gendering” individuals is on-going and unavoidable. For many people, the word “femininity” has associations with “frilly pink party dresses,” with demureness, deference, and lack of power and influence. The first section of this book demonstrates some alternative conceptions of femininity, and a range of ways in which femininity is performed in different contexts and cultures. The analyses illustrate that we are all continually performing aspects of femininity (and masculinity) in flexible, dynamic, ambiguous, predictable and unpredictable ways. Language and gender research has a long tradition of engagement with the political, and specifically with feminism and feminist goals. The chapters in the second section of this book demonstrate the value of identifying gendered patterns in order to challenge their potentially repressive effects in social interaction in a range of spheres. The researchers analyse contemporary international evidence of sexism in language use, including material from Japanese spam emails expressing sexual desire, and from media reporting on male and female candidates in the 2007 French elections. The final section of this book focuses on the different ways in which we negotiate our gender through discourse. Gender is just one of many facets of our intrinsically hybridized social identities. Nevertheless, it is a very significant facet, a salient dimension in everyday life, with a pervasive social influence on everything we do and say. Interaction is typically viewed through “gendered” spectacles much of the time. The chapters in the third section focus in detail on diverse ways in which gender is constructed through discourse, examining the interaction between individual agency and the larger constraining social structures, including socio-cultural norms, within which that agency is enacted. Finally, the different contributions in this book represent research from a multiplicity of geographic and cultural backgrounds, supporting efforts to internationalise language and gender research, and to raise awareness of empirical studies undertaken in a wide range of linguistic and cultural contexts.

Wordplay and Translation

Author : Dirk Delabastita
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134965885
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Wordplay and Translation written by Dirk Delabastita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular and multimodal forms of cultural products are becoming increasingly visible within translation studies research. Interest in translation and music, however, has so far been relatively limited, mainly because translation of musical material has been considered somewhat outside the limits of translation studies, as traditionally conceived. Difficulties associated with issues such as the 'musicality' of lyrics, the fuzzy boundaries between translation, adaptation and rewriting, and the pervasiveness of covert or unacknowledged translations of musical elements in a variety of settings have generally limited the research in this area to overt and canonized translations such as those done for the opera. Yet the intersection of translation and music can be a fascinating field to explore, and one which can enrich our understanding of what translation is and how it relates to other forms of expression. This special issue is an attempt to open up the field of translation and music to a wider audience within translation studies, and to an extent, within musicology and cultural studies. The volume includes contributions from a wide range of musical genres and languages: from those that investigate translation and code-switching in North African rap and rai, and the intertextual and intersemiotic translations revolving around Mahler's lieder in Chinese, to the appropriation and after-life of Kurdish folk songs in Turkish, and the emergence of rock'n roll in Russian. Other papers examine the reception of Anglo-American stage musicals and musical films in Italy and Spain, the concept of 'singability' with examples from Scandinavian languages, and the French dubbing of musical episodes of TV series. The volume also offers an annotated bibliography on opera translation and a general bibliography on translation and music.