Film dubbing

[Melissa Smith]

Dear Colleagues:
This discussion couldn’t have come at a better time for me. I teach a 
course entitled “Foreign Film” – I use Russian examples to deal with 
cross-cultural issues and some common concepts of filmmaking/ viewing, 
and then let the students do their own projects (“sneak previews” and 
papers) on whatever (approved) film they want, provided it is in a 
language other than English. We’re in the “sneak preview” period, and 
when there are no student presentations, I’m using “Moscow Doesn’t 
Believe In Tears” in serial soap opera form.   We’re about halfway 
through, and the DVD is freezing due to a number of scratches, so I 
decided to switch over to the dubbed VHS version that I got by mistake 
many years ago.  So we’re watching the dubbed version right now, and 
will be choosing some of the scenes to compare with the subtitled 
version.
It’s a GER course, so only two students out of 24 have taken Russian. 
If you don’t mind, I’ll share some of this discussion with my students 
when we get to the end.

Melissa Smith

Danko Sipka wrote:


>I was not following this thread and if this was already mentioned, I 
>apologize.
>Poland is very interesting in this regard with TV movies being dubbed 
and 
>movies in theaters subtitled.
>Attempts to use subtitling on TV have all failed and one argument being 
>mounted is that for the speakers of Slavic languages (highly inflected 
and 
>with unpredictable word order) it is more difficult to follow the 
subtitles 
>than for say English speakers. For those who can read Polish, more on 
that 
>can be found here: 
>http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/MegaBBS/thread-view.asp?threadid=10879&messageid=151622.
>This argument is not supported by ex-Yugoslav countries, where 
everything is 
>subtitled. The choice seems to be a matter of tradition.
>Also, there is a recent publication on the topic under discussion: 
>http://www.verlagdrkovac.de/3-8300-4401-1.htm.
>Best,
>
>Danko
>
>Danko Sipka
>Editor, Journal of Less Commonly Taught Languages
>http://www.councilnet.org/jnclctl/index.htm
>Professor of Slavic Languages and Applied Linguistics
>School of International Letters and Cultures
>Arizona State University
>Web: http://www.public.asu.edu/~dsipka
>Mail: Danko.Sipka at asu.edu 
>
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Melissa T. Smith, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and 
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Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
Tel: (330)941-3462

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