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Audiodeskrypcja autorska
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Author(s): Piotr Wasylczyk, Agnieszka Szarkowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: auteur audio description; accessibility; audio description; audiovisual translation; auteur cinema

Summary/Abstract: The article outlines a new type of audio description: auteur description, which aims to immerse the blind and partially sighted audience into the story world created by the auteur-director, as presented in the screenplay. Two fi lms: Volver by Pedro Almodóvar and Dzień Świra (The Day of the Wacko) by Marek Koterski, are used to highlight the main features of auteur description: the use of metaphors, emotional and marked language, subjective descriptions, all based on the screenplay text.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 48-62
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish