The second meeting of the Italian Research Seminar in Spring 2022 will host research presentations by 2nd-year students in the Italian MA program. This year's speakers are Santain Tavella and Toby Hale.
Tavella's lecture is entitled:
“Anybody here speak English? / Non dovete avere paura, non c’è ragione”: Dubbing as Translation and Rewriting in Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna
This lecture analyzes the Italian dubbing of African American director Spike Lee's 2008 film, Miracle at St. Anna. Specifically, I explore the difficulties that the audiovisual translator encounters when approaching a film product that is strongly characterized by the sociolects and idiolects of its protagonists, as in the case in the production of an Italian edition of Lee’s film. The multilingualism of Miracle at St. Anna, which is set partially in Italy, presents increased difficulties to the translator, problematizing standard dubbing procedures. Examining the challenging linguistic and cultural transfer of this film for the Italian market, my paper asks whether English-speaking and Italian viewers can even be said to see the same film.
More information will be provided in the next weeks.
Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.