Abstract
This book is the second we have edited in English focusing on audio description (AD). Now the scope is diametrically different from the previous publication (Maszerowska, Matamala, & Orero, 2014), where one film was analysed from many perspectives. While the former could be considered to have followed a bottom-up approach, the present publication adopts a top-down approach. Audio Description: New Perspectives Illustrated looked at AD from the perspective of the many components in film language and narrative, its production and terminology. The result was an interesting in-depth analysis of 11 building blocks that need to be taken into consideration when embarking upon writing an AD script. The aim in the present book, in contrast, is to open the lens as widely as possible in order to take a panoramic picture of new approaches in current research in AD. The idea is also to set a long exposure time, hoping the photo will not be blurred. To understand fully the resulting image, though, there is a need to know what surrounds this image, in which field it was taken.
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The latest version of the user-needs mapping template can be obtained from ISO/IEC JTC1/SWG-A, at www.jtc1access.org/base.htm (accessed September 24, 2015).
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United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006), at www.un.org/disabilities/convention/conventionfull.shtml (accessed September 24, 2015).
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Maszerowska, A., Matamala, A., & Orero, P. (2014). Audio description: New perspectives illustrated. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Orero, P., & Matamala, A. (2007). Accessible opera: Overcoming linguistic and sensorial barriers. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 15(4), 262–277.
Acknowledgements
This research was partly funded by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness FFI2012-39056-C02-01, Subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing and AD: new formats, and FFI2012-31024, Linguistic and sensorial accessibility: technologies for voice-over and AD. Also to the Catalan Government funds 2014SGR027 and the European funds for the projects HBB4ALL FP7 CIP-ICT-PSP.2013.5.1 # 621014.
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Matamala, A., Orero, P. (2016). Audio Description and Accessibility Studies: A Work in Progress. In: Matamala, A., Orero, P. (eds) Researching Audio Description. Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56917-2_1
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