More than twenty years ago, I wrote an essay that I called “Translating Hollywood”. (more…)

Time to clear up a popular misconception. Small differences in the meanings of gestures (and intertitles) aside, silent films were a global product. (more…)

Students ask that all the time. What is more important, that a sentence in a dub is lip sync or that it’s the right sentence? (more…)

Now that dubbing is beginning to take hold in the English-speaking world, there’s a slight sense of panic. It’s the idea that dubbing, by replacing dialogue in one language with another set of words in a different language, is somehow destroying the artistic integrity, the purity of the original work. (more…)