Professional Korean-to-English translator and author of The Elements of Subtitles, Revised and Expanded Edition: A Practical Guide to the Art of Dialogue, Character, Context, Tone and Style in Subtitling.
Series editor and publisher of The Bilingual Library.
Recent articles
Subtitling: The Role of Trans-modal Translation in Global Cinema,’ Translation Journal Vol. 14 No. 2 (2010).
Tonality in Subtitle Translation,’ Translation Journal Vol. 14 No. 4 (2010).
Recent subtitling projects
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The Housemaid
A 2010 remake of The Housemaid is currently in production with a scheduled May release. http://asianmediawiki.com/The_Housemaid_(2010-South_Korea)Favorite Films
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- Auteur-driven
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- Serene & subtle
- Wildly romantic
- Canonical classics
- Shh!—silent cinema
- Of-the-moment
- Of-the-past
- High Art
- Pop Art
- Vanguard cinema
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The Housemaid
Blue Kino’s 2009 release of Kim Ki-young’s The Housemaid (1960) illustrates how removing a screenplay’s intentionally ‘ordinary’ conversation patterns from the subtitles can rob audiences of… read review
Vampyr
Criterion’s 2008 release of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932) is representative of an important and subtle shift in English-language subtitling. Translator John Gudelj and the Criterion spotting… read review
