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Audio Description and Homoeroticism in the Miniseries Fellow Travelers

Journal of audiovisual translation
This study analyzes the audio description (AD) of sexual sequences in the television series Fellow Travelers. A central premise of the study is that contemporary telefiction draws from pornographic aesthetics to explore aspects of queer subjectivity and ...
Iván Villanueva-Jordán
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Subtitling for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Audio Description as Integrated Activities in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom

Hikma
This paper reports on a didactic project in which subtitling for the d/Deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) and audio description (AD) were implemented in an English Language course offered at an Italian university as part of a master’s degree in foreign ...
Micòl Beseghi
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Story-Context-Aware Audio Description Generation via Hierarchical Narrative Modeling

International Conference on Virtual Reality and Visualization
Audio Description (AD) generation aims to provide accessible narratives for visually impaired audiences by creating coherent textual descriptions of visual content in films.
Yuanzhe Yang, Xianzhong Liu
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Poetic Audio Description

Journal of audiovisual translation
This article explores the development of poetic Audio Description (AD) in live dance performances, with a focus on the Canadian context. Poetic AD embraces metaphor, sensory language, and embodied descriptions, enhancing accessibility while expanding the
C. Bergonzoni
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Advancing Game Accessibility With Audio Description

Journal of audiovisual translation
Since 2020, game accessibility has gained significant attention from both industry and academia. For players with visual disabilities, features such as screen readers, sound cues, contrast settings and, more recently, audio description (AD) have been a ...
María Eugenia Larreina, Carme Mangiron
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Creativity in audio description

Translation Spaces
This work explores the role of creativity in Audio Description (AD) as a translation tactic for conveying culture-specific references (CSRs) in the historical drama I leoni di Sicilia ( Disney+, 2023 ).
Alessandra Rizzo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From Policy to Practice: Transforming Audio Description in China

Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness
Introduction Recent years have witnessed progress in China's audio description (AD) legislation and practice, yet the role of AD legislation as a key driver behind AD practice and development remains underexplored.
Weiqing Xiao, Ying Li, Bei Zhu
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Audio description and the spectrum of materiality: Gaining blindness through narrative negotiation

Cadernos de Tradução
This article explores how audio description (AD) actively contributes to storytelling by engaging with the material and sensory dimensions of audiovisual content.
Alexandra Sanchez
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dancing with words: the emotional reception of creative audio description in contemporary dance

Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
Recent advancements in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS) have spurred a surge in experimental research, particularly in Audio Description (AD) studies.
Marina Ramos Caro, María Luján Rubio, Konrad Rudnicki, A. R. Rojo López   +3 more
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Practice report: How Can the Audio Description of Screen Adaptations Benefit from Literary Works? A Pedagogical Proposal Illustrated by The Queen’s Gambit

Journal of audiovisual translation
This report presents a pedagogical proposal for trainers to lead an in-class exercise with trainee audio describers to support students in source text analysis, understanding film narrative, and its transposition into audio description.
Paula Igareda
semanticscholar   +1 more source