An Introduction to Audio Description is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to
the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration, providing readers with the …

Translation, accessibility and the viewing experience of foreign, deaf and blind audiences
has long been a neglected area of research within film studies. The same applies to the film …

Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a
Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains …

This article presents a study that tested the impact of audio description (AD) style on
dimensions of presence (spatial presence, ecological validity, engagement, and negative …

With a strong focus on interdisciplinarity, the handbook surveys concepts and methods in
neighbouring disciplines that are concerned with cognition and how they relate to …

Despite a greatly increased volume of research over the past decade, audiovisual
translation (AVT) and media accessibility and its main services (dubbing, subtitling, subtitling …

Video accessibility is essential for people with visual impairments. Audio descriptions
describe what is happening on-screen, eg, physical actions, facial expressions, and scene …

After drawing a brief history of audiovisual translation (AVT), the paper gives a definition of
empirical research and it analyzes when, how and why empirical research started to …

This chapter reviews methodologies for investigating the cognitive processing of audiovisual
translation products using the triangulation of physiological, psychometric and performance …

Museums present a myriad of source texts, which are often highly ambiguous. Yet museum
audio description (AD) is sited in an AD tradition that advocates objectivity. In screen AD …