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This book analyses an important phase in the interlingual dubbing process of audiovisual productions: the elaboration of target language scripts for the recording studios. Written by a practitioner in the industry who is also an academic and trainer, it provides practical know-how and guidelines while adopting a scholarly, structural and methodical approach. Supported by an exemplified, analytical and theoretical framework, it is non-language specific and discusses strategies and tricks of the trade. Divided into three parts, the book provides a descriptive, practical and analytical approach to dubbing and dialogue writing. The author analyses scripts drawn from her own professional practice, including initial drafts that illustrate the various transformations of a text throughout the rewriting process. She also offers a ´backstage´ perspective, from first-hand experience in recording sessions that enabled knowledge of text manipulation, studio jargon, and the dubbing post production process. This publication will provide a valuable resource for novice dubbing translators and dialogue writers, while offering practitioner insights to scholars and researchers in the field of Audiovisual Translation, Film and Media Studies.

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Part I: The Dialogue Writing Practice: A descriptive approach.- Chapter 1: Dialogue writing set in context.- Chapter 2: Bridging disciplines: analogies and applicable devices.- Part II: Strategies and Know-how: A practical approach.- Chapter 3: Dialogue Writing Itinerary.- Chapter 4: Dubbing Deliverables.- Chapter 5: Script components.- Chapter 6: Standards and practices.- Part III: Black Box Revealed: An analytical approach.- Chapter 7: Applied strategies.

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Giselle Spiteri Miggiani, is a translator and dubbing dialogue writer of TV series and movies broadcast on Italian TV (RAI, Mediaset, Sky). She is a lecturer in Audiovisual Translation at the University of Malta.

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