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Author Corrizzato, Sara, author

Title Spike Lee's Bamboozled : a contrastive analysis of compliments and insults from English into Italian / by Sara Corrizzato
Published Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015

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Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT ; BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary This book compares the original version of the screenplay of the film Bamboozled (2000) with the Italian dubbed text, offering an analysis of forty-four compliments and forty-four insults. In order to provide a comparative study of the expressive speech acts in both versions, the book includes all the examples of such language use in the film. After a brief presentation of the main linguistic features of African American English and a short introduction to audiovisual language and to the relevance of audiovisual translation in the field of Translation Studies, every speech act in both versions
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Subject Lee, Spike -- Criticism and interpretation
Lee, Spike. Bamboozled
SUBJECT Lee, Spike fast
Subject African Americans in motion pictures.
English language -- Translating into Italian.
Film scripts & screenplays.
Linguistics.
Translation & interpretation.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
African Americans in motion pictures
English language -- Translating into Italian
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443873994
1443873993
1322608148
9781322608143