Mass Communicator: International Journal of Communication Studies
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 7
  • Issue: 4

Translatability of Films: A Critique The Languages of Cinema

  • Author:
  • Sarat Kumar Jena
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 34 to 37

Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat (India)

Online published on 16 December, 2013.

Abstract

In 20th century cinema emerged as the largest mass media round the world. Throughout the digital and artistic revolution in cinematic industry it is inherited as a transnational tool of the artist-director relationship based on its consumption and reception as a capitalist product. The politics of culture and nation is intrinsic in the verbal and non-verbal translation of the cinematic languages where translation, nation and language have been embodied as a composite area of the postcolonial readings. The present study attempts to evaluate the politics of the cultural nation as conceived in Michael Wood's “The Language of Cinema” (2005).