Researching audio description : new approaches /: new approaches. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anna Matamala, Pilar Orero, editors.
• Editors: Matamala, Anna, 1973-; Orero, Pilar
• Contents: 1. Audio Description and Accessibility Studies: Work in Progress -- PART I: RE-THINKING ACCESSIBILITY -- 2. On Accessibility as a Human Right, with an Application to Media Accessibility -- 3. Impairment and Disability -- Challenging Concepts of 'Normality' -- PART II: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: RESEARCHING AUDIO DESCRIPTION -- 4. Cognitive Approach to Audio Description -- 5. Game Accessibility for the Blind: Current Overview and the Potential Application of Audio Description as the Way Forward -- 6. Should Audio Description Reflect the Way Sighted Viewers Look at Films? Combining Eye-Tracking and Reception Study Data -- 7. Audio Description Washes Brighter? A Study in Brand Names and Advertising -- 8. What Should I Say? Tentative Criteria to Prioritize Information in the Audio Description of Film Characters -- 9. How Co-Speech Gestures are Rendered in Audio Description: A Case Study -- 10. Foreign Language Class with Audio Description: A Case Study -- 11. An Overview of Audio Description in Thai Television -- PART III: AUDIO DESCRIPTION PROJECTS -- 12. The ADLAB project -- 13. From DTV4LL to HBB4ALL: Accessibility in European Broadcasting -- 14. The ALST Project: Technologies for Audio Description -- 15. Audio Description of Press Illustrations for Young Readers by Young Volunteers -- 16. Open Art -- Designing Accessible Content in a Multimedia Guide App for Visitors With and Without Sensory Impairments.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.2301/4; Linguistics; Audio-visual materials -- Translating; Blind -- Audio-visual aids; Mass media and language; Applied linguistics; Translating and interpreting; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology; Blind -- Audio-visual aids; Mass media and language; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Translating & Interpreting; Translation & interpretation; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Language: reference & general; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137569172; 1137569174
• Related ISBNs: 9781137569165
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 3, 2016)
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