Edited by Carol O'Sullivan, Director of Translation Studies, University of Bristol, and Jean-François Cornu, Professional subtitler and translator, Independent film researcher

Carol O'Sullivan was awarded a PhD in Modern and Medieval Languages by the University of Cambridge in 2002. Prior to taking up a post at the University of Bristol in 2013, she taught at the Universities of East Anglia and Portsmouth. She has published articles and book chapters on audiovisual translation, multimodality, translation history, and literary translation, and is the author of Translating Popular Film (2011). Her current project is on the history of subtitling in English-speaking territories. She is a past Board member of the European Society for Translation Studies, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Translation Studies.

Jean-François Cornu is a professional translator specialising in subtitling and the translation from English into French of books on cinema and art. A former Senior Lecturer at the University of Rennes-2, France, he is also an independent film researcher focusing on the history and practice of film translation, and the work of Alfred Hitchcock. In 2014, he published Le doublage et le sous-titrage : histoire esthétique (Dubbing and subtitling: history and aesthetics). He is a member of ATAA, the French association of audiovisual translators, and co-founder of its online journal L'Écran traduit.

Martin Barnier, University Lumière Lyon 2
Charles Barr, University of East Anglia
Geoff Brown, De Montfort University
Paolo Cherchi Usai, George Eastman Museum, University of Rochester, & the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Thomas C. Christensen, Danish Film Institute
Jean-François Cornu, Independent Film Researcher
Bryony Dixon, British Film Institute National Archive.
Claire Dupré la Tour, Utrecht University
Adrián Fuentes-Luque, Universidad Pablo Olavide
Carla Mereu Keating, University of Bristol
Dominique Moustacchi, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC, French Film Centre)
Christopher Natzén, National Library of Sweden
Charles O'Brien, Carleton University in Ottawa
Carol O'Sullivan, University of Bristol
Rachel Weissbrod, Bar-Ilan University

"The Translation of Films, 1900-1950 is a truly remarkable achievement, illustrating the potential of archival research in AVT (audiovisual translation)studies. Aiming "to set the agenda for research on the history of film translation" (11), this ground-breaking book makes a significant contribution to both AVT and Film Studies, opening up truly multidisciplinary perspectives and marking a radical change in our understanding of film translation history." - Serenella Zanotti, Journal of Specialised Translation

"Across all chapters presented in this collection, the value and importance of archive-based research is consistently brought to the fore, and several chapters present valuable models for approaching primary materials relating to audiovisual translation... While this volume is not the first to cover this territory, it may well prove to be a focusing point, and in some senses a leveller, for future archive-driven studies into the topic." - Peter Walsh, Journal of Film Preservation

"The collection's comparative spirit of challenging and probing, of stimulating the contact zone between disciplines ... cover[s] old ground in new ways: as essays from archive and academy shed light on each other's disciplinary emphases, early film translation in all its incarnations is revealed at once to be an engine of international circulation, a site of artistic experimentation, and an inextricable part of the story of cinema ... proves that translated films ... are eminently worthy of preservation and study ... The Translation of Films' accumulative potential to change how films are preserved, distributed, studied, and seen, such that the archaeological puzzle of film translation history, with all its missing pieces, may start to look more complete." - Daniella Schütze, Oxford Comparative Criticism & Translation

"O'Sullivan and Cornu's book is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in film translation. In fact, it should be read not only by film and audiovisual translation historians, but also by practitioners. While today's film translation techniques may be a far cry from what the book describes, understanding the origins provides immense help in appreciating the current constraints and guidelines of good practice." - Lukasz Bogucki, Target