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Thanks to streaming, multilingual film and TV is exploding, and it’s helping to enhance the viewer experience.
Welsh language heist drama, Dal y Mellt, is being streamed on Netflix with the title, Rough Cut.
Despite increasing use of non-English languages demonstrating broader acceptance of linguistic diversity in a globalized world, films sometimes suggest associations between ‘foreignness’ and villainy.
As the popularity of Squid Game continues to grow globally, there have been debates over the quality of the English subtitle translation - but critics are missing important context.
Governments could use dubbing to censor ideas they didn’t like or insert messages in line with their propaganda.
Turning on the subtitles can have a range of benefits for children’s reading and language learning.
There are lots of movies labelled as “world cinema” that have been unfairly eclipsed by their inferior English remakes
It’s the first non-English language film to win best picture – here’s hoping this is the start of something big for world cinema.
In his Golden Globes acceptance speech, Parasite director Bong Joon-ho teased audiences about their unwillingness to watch subtitled films, highlighting the anglo-centric culture of film
Giving a movie subtitles or dubbing it into multiple languages makes commercial and cultural sense, but the process can be riddled with potential pitfalls.
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Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor, Media, Swinburne University of Technology
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Reader in translation studies, University of Warwick
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Lecturer in Interpreting (with Spanish), University of East Anglia
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Linguistics, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Film And Creative Practice Research, University of Staffordshire
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Assistant Professor in Film, Northumbria University, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting at Macquarie University, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor of English Phonetics, Palacky University Olomouc
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Lecturer in Film Studies, Aberystwyth University
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Assistant professor, Charles University