The Translation of Films, 1900-1950
Edited by Carol O'Sullivan and Jean-François Cornu
Author Information
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.
Contributors:
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