Cinematic Style through Subtitles and Translation: Reading the Hollywood Western in Lucky Luke

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dc.contributor.authorHarrison, Justin
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-16T23:15:22Z
dc.date.available2014-09-16T23:15:22Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-09-16
dc.descriptionTo be published in as a chapter in an ebook in 2015.en_US
dc.description.abstractFranco-Europe’s massively popular comic book series Lucky Luke may be read, among others, as a postwar text, a cold-war text, or the authors’ love letter to America. But the creation of these albums can also be studied through the lens of the movie-going experience of a French-speaking audience watching a Hollywood Western dubbed or subtitled into French. Lucky Luke is a cultural icon of the French, yet it draws heavily on a mythologized American West. This series is, obviously, very visual, yet in a particularly cinematic way. These books are a pictorial representation of Hollywood movies, replete with close-ups, wide angles, establishing shots, and cinemascope-like visuals. But language-specific elements such as musical numbers, text-based visuals like signs, and known geographical names cannot be conveniently overdubbed. Reading Lucky Luke in its original French is an experience akin to a film going experience in which place and character names, songs, and signs are all represented in English, as in a near all-encompassing backdrop, with a French overlay on top.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5683
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAttribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectWestern Filmsen_US
dc.subjectBande Dessineeen_US
dc.subjectLucky Lukeen_US
dc.subjectComicsen_US
dc.subjectNational Identityen_US
dc.subject.departmentUniversity of Victoria Libraries
dc.titleCinematic Style through Subtitles and Translation: Reading the Hollywood Western in Lucky Lukeen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US
dc.typePresentationen_US

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