The Routledge Handbook of Audio Description (Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies)

The American Council of the Blind (ACB) Recipient of the 2022 Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl Audio Description Achievement Award for Research and Development This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of audio description, the practice of rendering the visual elements of a multimodal product such as a film, painting, or live performance in the spoken mode, for the benefit principally of the blind and visually impaired community. This volume brings together scholars, researchers, practitioners and service providers, such as broadcasters from all over the world, to cover as thoroughly as possible all the theoretical and practical aspects of this discipline. In 38 chapters, the expert authors chart how the discipline has become established both as an important professional service and as a valid academic subject, how it has evolved and how it has come to play such an important role in media accessibility. From the early history of the subject through to the challenges represented by ever-changing technology, the Handbook covers the approaches and methodologies adopted to analyse the "multimodal" text in the constant search for the optimum selection of the elements to describe. This is the essential guide and companion for advanced students, researchers and audio description professionals within the more general spheres of translation studies and media accessibility. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part One Accessibility and blindness 1 The question of accessibility 2 Access services for the blind and partially sighted: a social and legal framework for the promotion of audio description 3 A profile of audio description end-users: linguistic needs and inclusivity Part Two A theoretical overview 4 A cognitive approach to audio description: production and reception processes 5 Narratology and/in audio description 6 Linguistic and textual aspects of audio description 7 Audio description and culture-specific elements 8 “Ut pictura poesis”: the rendering of an aesthetic artistic image in form and content Part Three Audio description sectors 9 Audio description for the theatre: a research-based practice 10 Opera and dance audio description 11 Audio description for the screen 12 Museum audio description: the role of ADLAB PRO 13 Audio description in museums: a service provider perspective 14 Visitor studies: Interdisciplinary methods for understanding the impact of inclusive museum audio description experiences 15 Audio describing churches: in search of a template Part Four Stakeholders 16 The audio description professional: a sociological overview and new training perspectives 17 Audio description: a public broadcaster’s core business and headache 18 Profiling audio description service providers: a questionnaire-based snapshot 19 Research in audio description Part Five Innovation and technology 20 Audio description software tools 21 Receptor tools 22 Artificial voices 23 Video games and audio description 24 Automating audio description 25 Audio description personalisation Part Six Practices 26 Audio introductions 27 Audio subtitling 28 Audio description translation: a retrospective 29 Audio description translation: a pilot study in Chinese/Spanish 30 Audio description for the non-blind Part Seven Training 31 University training 32 In-house training: the course at Bayerischer Rundfunk Part Eight National case studies 33 Audio description in the United States 34 Audio description in Canada 35 Audio description in Australia 36 Audio description in Russia 37 Audio description in Brazil 38 Audio description in Slovenia Glossary of Terms Index "This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the expanding field of Audio Description, the practice of rendering the visual elements of a multimodal product such as a film, painting, or live performance in the spoken mode, for the benefit principally of the blind and visually impaired community. This volume brings together scholars, researchers, practitioners and service providers such as broadcasters from all over the world to cover as thoroughly as possible all the theoretical and practical aspects of this discipline. In 38 chapters, the expert authors chart how the discipline has become established both as an important professional service and as a valid academic subject, how it has evolved and how it has come to play such an important role in media accessibility. From the early history of the subject, through to the challenges represented by ever-changing technology, the Handbook covers the approaches and methodologies adopted to analyse the 'multimodal' text, in the constant search for the optimum selection of the elements to describe. This is the essential guide and companion for advanced students, researchers and Audio Description professionals within the more general spheres of translation studies and media accessibility"-- Provided by publisher