Documentary Translation
摘要
This chapter focuses on the genre of documentary as Audiovisual (AV) testimonies and on the way this genre is currently translated, demonstrating the potential effects of Voice-Over (VO) and subtitling. A comparative analysis of two existing documentaries dealing with Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is used—one with a VO and one that is subtitled. When comparing originals and translations, parts of the methodology I developed in previous research (Bosseaux, 2015) is applied to describe voices and non-verbal elements to show how trauma and emotions are conveyed not only through words but also through paralinguistic information such as rhythm. I also consider the way in which survivors are framed in the original documentaries in terms of the camera angles used to frame their physical presence. These elements are used to identify how survivors narrate their traumatic experiences in originals and translations, and this is then linked to an ethics of AV translation.