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The 'Delia Effect': Some Thoughts on Delia Smith and the Business of Food Television
No full textDespite the undisputed success of televised cookery all over the world, TV programmes about cooking have not acquired full academic recognition within Television Studies as yet, let alone in disciplines such as Screen Translation that lie at the intersection of Media Studies and Translation Studies. Admittedly, cookery on TV has been studied from heterogeneous angles and has been approached from a number of other academic disciplines: Food Studies, Anthropology and Cultural Studies (see Allen and Albala 366; Ashley et al. 171) just to name a few, nonetheless gastronomic programmes on TV have seldom been catalogued as part of a self-standing television genre.
During the last twenty years, since cookery has become more and more appealing to a larger audience and has acquired a more prestigious status, things have been gradually changing and the BBC for example has now a food dedicated section on its website (BBC programmes). Scholars, however, have not yet registered this epochal change.
The exponential growth of culinary series broadcast on terrestrial and on satellite thematic channels and the extensive media coverage of food shows indicate that there is a consistent audience demand for the subject, and that huge economic interests revolve around TV cookery, especially for its appeal and consequential advertising capacity. So, why is cookery still so ancillary to television studies? Is it because it is not considered a serious matter? And does that have more to do with gender issues? Or is it because cookery is still perceived as a niche interest addressing small numbers of viewers?
Starting from these contradicting premises, the present chapter sets out to further explore some aspects of the TV cookery business. Although the study cannot investigate in depth all cultural and economic phenomena related to food TV for reason of space, it will seek to produce some relevant thoughts on its impact on audiences and broadcasters’ policies
Una traduzione che si fa senza traduttori?
No full textIl contributo è una riflessione critica sulla pratica della traduzione, sulle aspettative a volte disattese di chi si affaccia per la prima volta al mondo della traduzione e sulle difficoltà concrete che il mercato inevitabilmente pone. Il capitolo riporta una testimonianza concreta che si inserisce in una più ampia discussione sulle molteplici dimensioni del multilinguismo della società globalizzata
e sulla professionalità della figura dell traduttore in un contesto in rapida evoluzione
Le grand culinary tour: Adaptation and retranslation of a gastronomic journey across languages and food cultures
Get PDFThrough an examination of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's cookery TV series Jamie's Great Italian Escape (Fresh One Productions, Channel 4, 2005), and comparing the original version to the Italian subtitled version of the show this article sets out to investigate a case of cultural translation in which Italian cuisine is adapted for a UK TV audience and then retranslated for the Italian audience whose dishes were originally the source of inspiration for the programme. To provide control parameters, the article also considers a few key passages from the original cookbook accompanying the TV series and contrasts them to the Italian translation. The article will address in particular the topic of how culture-specific contents of the Italian culinary tradition are adapted for UK audiences and readership and how they are then conveyed back via subtitles and written translation to the Italian speaking viewers/readers, who do not share the cultural and the linguistic background of the source text recipients, yet are very familiar with the cultural contents presented in the show. The article argues that power structures between a centre and a periphery of the media industry are relevant for the success and reception of cookery programmes and of their translations. As Italian food culture is presented to the world via a UK perspective, one further line of argument of the article is that this might influence how Italian culinary tradition is perceived by the rest of the world. The article argues that unveiling the power dynamics involved in what is usually considered material for Television Studies or Cultural Studies may have important implications for Translation Studies as well
After the damages: An international summer school for risk prevention, management and design
Get PDFThe first edition of the Summer School “After the Damages” ended in July 2020. The initiative aimed at increasing both the resilience capacity (natural and an-thropic) and the mitigating and man-agement aspects in case of catastrophic or calamitous events.Starting from the assumption that the damages caused by such situations and their consequences, which generally have a major impact on society, cannot be quickly solved, the training course worked on the limits of tolerance to their effects, aiming at their possible in-crease in order to reduce the level of potential disaster
Reality television and unnatural dialogues: Trends in the Italian audio-visual translation of factual programming
No full textSince the early 1990s, an exponential increase in the demand for foreign TV content has occurred to fill the ever-growing libraries of new speciality channels (and later digital platforms). This process has boosted demand for the translation and adaptation of reality TV series, thus paving the way in Italy, traditionally a dubbing country, for the rise of a new hybrid form of audio-visual translation (AVT), 'simil-sync', deemed more cost-effective than dubbing and more user-friendly than subtitling for the local audience. Factual programming has become one of the most successful components of many themed channels, reshaping both Italian television and the national AVT scenario
Crowdfunding per la conservazione del patrimonio culturale: il castello di Mothe Chandeniers [Crowdfunding enabling preservation of cultural heritage: the Mothe Chandeniers castle]
No full textIl problema della copertura degli ingenti costi degli interventi di preservazione del patrimonio culturale è da anni al centro del dibattito fra professionisti e accademici che si interessano del settore del patrimonio culturale. Varie proposte
sono state avanzate sulla necessità di differenziare le fonti di finanziamento, non contando più solamente sul supporto tramite fondi pubblici, ma promuovendo anche atteggiamenti imprenditoriali e la partecipazione di privati come sponsors o partners progettuali. Negli ultimi decenni, la modalità di finanziamento tramite crowdfunding è stata proposta
come una valida alternativa di raccolta fondi. Il caso studio della campagnia di equity crowdfunding
della Mothe Chandenires emerge non solo per la sua capacità di attrarre notevoli capitali e per l’originalità della sua campagna di comunicazione ma anche per l’innovazione introdotta dall’idea di acquisto partecipativo di un bene culturale in pericolo. L’iniziativa dimostra che è possibile un più ampio coinvolgimento degli stakeholders e di
un pubblico internazionale di “investitori” tramite processi partecipativi che ne valorizzino il contributo
finanziari e nel processo decisionale pur mantenendo un controllo da parte di stakeholders chiave del
progetto
Un museo per preservare la tradizione cinese del mattone. Land-Based Rationalism Design & Research Center [A museum to preserve the Chinese brick tradition. Land-Based Rationalism Design & Research Center]
No full textMentre nei grandi spazi urbani la cultura contemporanea è stata utilizzata come motore per la riqualificazione degli spazi cittadini, ad esempio con la creazione di quartieri dedicati a gallerie d’arte, musei, e spazi di produzione artistica3, nelle zone periferiche e rurali l’attenzione si è rivolta alla riscoperta della tradizioni locali come veicolo di valori identitari delle comunità di provincia e alla promozione di una rinnovata consapevolezza del ruolo di tali tradizioni come motore di coesione sociale.
Il museo Brick Kiln si inserisce in questo scenario costituendo un tipico esempio della relazione fra la preservazione delle tradizioni e la creazione di un legame con la modernità. Il museo, situato nel cuore della piccola città di Zhu Jiadian, si prefigge l’obiettivo di valorizzare le antiche fornaci per la produzione di mattoni, che risalgono alle dinastie
Ming e Quing, con la riscoperta del forte valore identitario che questa produzione artigianale ha per il territorio
The lost memory of industrial places: the Ipanema blast furnace
No full textThis contribution is based on a joint research project developed by the University of Ferrara, Department of Architecture (Italy) and the Escola Politecnica USP of São Paulo (Brazil) by the which it was possible to scan the interior and exterior surfaces of the ancient blast furnaces of São João do Ipanema, an extraordinary example of industry of cast iron production of the XIX century.
The research was aimed at investigating the evolution of the blast furnace technique exploring a surprisingly rich Brazilian technical literature, with description records and drawings dated between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Beside historical documentation it was also implemented on site a 3D survey campaign of the furnaces to understand how the profiles were modified along the time.
The first outputs of the project were thus focused on the evaluation of the transformation of the equipment in terms of more efficient shapes able to enhance the relationship between blast furnace profile fuel consumption and productivity.
The use of accurate digital technology, the following CAD elaboration of the chimney, the 3d model and the comparison with XIX century technical drawings confirmed that European directors of the plant were familiar with the most advance technical and scientific procedures and brought to the site a great technological improvement by an innovative know-how
Il recupero di una corte rurale nel veronese. Studio wok architetti associati [The renovation of a rural court in the Verona area]
No full textUna nuova abitazione ricavata in una parte del fienile di una corte agricola alle porte di Verona, vicino al fiume Adige, apre un “dialogo tra storia e contemporaneità: un dialogo spaziale e materico in una corte rurale” così come dichiarato dai progettisti, lo studio wok di Marcello Bondavalli, Nicola Brenna e Carlo Alberto Tagliabue
Former child language brokers: preliminary observations on practice, attitudes and relational aspects
Get PDFThe present paper sets out to report on the preliminary results of a section of the project InMedioPueri carried out at the Department of Interdiscilinary Studies in Translation, Languages and Cultures of the University of Bologna and having as its general aim the mapping of Child Language Brokering (CLB) as a crucially important but yet not explored phenomenon in Italy (Antonini forthcoming). Specifically, this part of the study aims at outlining the impact of CLB on the development of the children who performed it on an emotional and relational level. In order to systematically explore these aspects, which have been only partially touched upon in the literature (Tse & McQuillan 1996; Buriel et al 1998; Weisskirch & Alva 2002), a significant part of the project is devoted to collecting data concerning the linguistic and cultural mediation activity as perceived by former child language brokers, i.e. by bilingual adolescents and young adults who acted or, in some cases, still act as mediators for their families or other members of the same minority immigrant community who are not fluent in Italian
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