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This book explores the impact that high-profile and well-known
translators have on audience reception of translated theatre. Using
Relevance Theory as a framework, the book demonstrates how prior
knowledge of a celebrity translator's contextual background can
affect the spectator's cognitive state and influence their
interpretation of the play. Three canonical plays adapted for the
British stage are analysed: Mark Ravenhill's translation of Life of
Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, Roger McGough's translation of Tartuffe
by Moliere and Simon Stephens' translation of A Doll's House by
Henrik Ibsen. Drawing on interviews, audience feedback, reviews,
blogs and social media posts, Stock examines the extent to which
audiences infer the celebrity translator's own voice from their
translations. In doing so, he adds new perspectives to the
long-standing debate on the visibility of the translator in both
the process of translating and the reception of the translation.
Celebrity Translation in British Theatre offers an original
approach to theatre translation that sheds light on the culture of
celebrity and its capacity to attract new audiences to plays in
translation.
Over the years, Mondo has received global recognition for its
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Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female
lead, at a time when such a character was a rarity. Evan Ross Katz
explores the show's cultural relevance through a book that is part
oral history, part celebration, and part memoir of a personal
fandom that has universal resonance still, decades later. Katz-with
the help of the show's cast, creators, and crew-reveals that
although Buffy contributed to important conversations about gender,
sexuality, and feminism, it was not free of internal strife,
controversy, and shortcomings. Men-both on screen and off-would
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networks, amongst other factors, would drastically alter the show's
tone. Katz addresses these issues and more, including interviews
with stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter, Emma
Caulfield, Amber Benson, James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, Seth
Green, Marc Blucas, Nicholas Brendon, Danny Strong, Tom Lenk,
Bianca Lawson, Julie Benz, Clare Kramer, K. Todd Freeman, Sharon
Ferguson; and writers Douglas Petrie, Jane Espenson, and Drew Z.
Greenberg; as well as conversations with Buffy fanatics and friends
of the cast including Stacey Abrams, Cynthia Erivo, Lee Pace,
Claire Saffitz, Tavi Gevinson, and Selma Blair. Into Every
Generation a Slayer Is Born engages with the very notion of fandom,
and the ways a show like Buffy can influence not only how we see
the world but how we exist within it.
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