Abstract
Early in the twentieth century the new film medium transcended all national and cultural borders, but with the arrival of the talkies, the film industry faced a translation problem since only a small percentage of the world’s population understood English. As a result, there was a growing need to find appropriate screen translation approaches.
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Tveit, JE. (2009). Dubbing versus Subtitling: Old Battleground Revisited. In: Cintas, J.D., Anderman, G. (eds) Audiovisual Translation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234581_7
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