Dr Maria José García Vizcaíno, Montclair State University
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, 4:30 PM | 5190 AB, West Wing, CAC
ABSTRACT
Current laws and regulations on accessibility are leading to a fast delivery and proliferation of audio description (AD hereinafter) services on TV, cinema, and the performing arts. Audio description consists of the verbal narration of images mainly intended for visually-impaired audiences. It is therefore a type of intersemiotic translation from one medium (the visual) into another (the oral). AD entails wellgrounded observational and linguistic skills since attention to detail, selection of relevant information, and lexical accuracy are essential to convey vivid and precise images into words. With several examples taken from Netflix shows and brand short films, this presentation will show how these skills can be applied to AD for the cinema and for the theater. In particular, this presentation will focus on the partnership that has been recently established between Montclair State University and the off-Broadway theater Repertorio Español in NYC to include AD in Spanish for some of the plays that this company is currently performing.
BIO
Dr. María José García Vizcaíno is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Translation and Interpreting in Spanish at Montclair State University (MSU), where she teaches courses on Translation. Her main current lines of research are Advertising, Translation, and Audio Description. She has published extensively in prestigious academic journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Sociocultural Pragmatics: An International Journal of Spanish Linguistics, and Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, and has presented her work at numerous conferences, panels, and symposia around the world. Currently Dr. García Vizcaíno is teaching Audio Description in Spanish at MSU and engaging her students in projects to bring the Performing Arts closer to the Spanish-speaking low vision audiences in NY.
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