As an audiovisual art which is one of the most influential mass media, movie reflects people’s life. When T.A. Edison invented the movie instruments in 1893, it was the beginning of the history of movie. Movies tell stories, create vivid i...

This thesis introduces the translation theories on the application of the English movie title translation. Based on these theories we can concluded that in some aspects of film translation such as film title translation, cultural factors are...

Therefore, contextual adaptation theory, a newly developed field in China, is adopted as the theoretical background of this paper and such a translation approach of audience-oriented western film title is highly advocated. According to the b...

With the development of Chinese economy, China imports many English films. So translators need to translate these films into Chinese. But the translations of film titles are always faced with the problem of incongruity, especially in the asp...

It is more than argument that translation plays a significant role in social reality. It is also evident that translation studies, though the history of which is probably as old as the tower of Bible, have been for a long time...

In short, free translation is the basic strategy in translating film titles. Though by literal translation, the version may be faithful to the original for the audience to experience form of the foreign language. ...

This paper aims to study the translation of Western movie titles from the cultural perspective. It takes some movie title translations as examples and makes an analysis of the main cause of poor translation，and thus emphasizes the great im...

Proceeding from the features and functions of the film title, this thesis analyzes the main translation strategies applied in English film title translation from the Skopostheorie perspective....

Therefore, film title translation has become special and significant part of translation studies. Based on skopostheorie, this thesis intends to argue that English film title translation should be under the basic principle of fulfilling the ...

The movie is an audible image art, and different from other art categories. It does not look like books, newspapers, as the reader can quickly browse to realize the meaning, which is subsequently attracted to the story....

Movie is a popular form of art, and it is also a cultural exchange form. In the process of the translation, the translator should fully understand the connotation and the original film title. The translators should have a full understanding ...

To sum up, for the purpose of offering some help to the translators of film titles, the author hopes that the ideas presented in this paper can draw more and more attention of the people in the field of film title translation, especially in ...

Translation is a bridge between different cultures and languages, while film title-translating seems to serve as an express mail service between cultures. The translation of film title plays an extremely important role in the entry of intern...

According to Skopostheorie, translation strategies are determined by the purpose (Skopos) of the target texts. As an important breakthrough and complement to translation theory studies, Skopostheorie has given a new perspective to the study ...

Film is a perfect means of facilitating intercultural communication and understanding. The quality of film title translation plays a key role in ensuring the popularity of the film in a foreign country. Film titles possess some unique charac...