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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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The question of accessibility
Access services for the blind and partially sighted: a social and legal framework for the promotion of audio description
A profile of audio description end-users: linguistic needs and inclusivity
A cognitive approach to audio description: production and reception processes
Narratology and/in audio description
Linguistic and textual aspects of audio description
Audio description and culture specific elements
"Ut pictura poesis": the rendering of an aesthetic artistic image in form and content
Audio description for the theatre: a research-based practice
Opera and dance audio description
Audio description for the screen
Museum audio description: the role of ADLAB PRO
Audio description in museums: a service provider perspective
Visitor studies: the impact of inclusive museum audio description experiences
Audio describing churches: in search of a template
The audio description professional: a sociological overview and new training perspectives
Audio description: a public broadcaster's core business and headache
Profiling audio description service providers: a questionnaire-based snapshot
Research in audio description
Audio Description Software
Receptor Tools
Artificial Voices
Video games and audio description
Automating audio description
Audio description personalisation
Audio introductions
Audio subtitling
Audio description translation: a retrospective
Audio description translation: a pilot study Chinese/Spanish
Audio description for the non-blind
University training
In-house training: the course at Bayerischer Rundfunk
Audio description in the United States
Audio description in Canada
Audio description in Australia
Audio description in Russia
Audio description in Brazil
Audio description in Slovenia
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