Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish? : : Dubbing Stereotypes in The Nanny, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos /

Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish? : : Dubbing Stereotypes in The Nanny, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos / / Chiara Francesca Ferrari.

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"Since when is Fran Drescher Jewish?" This was Chiara Francesca Ferrari's reaction when she learned that Drescher's character on the television sitcom The Nanny was meant to be a portrayal of a stereotypical Jewish-American princess. Ferrari had only seen the Italian version of t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Ferrari, Chiara Francesca,
TeilnehmendeR:
Straubhaar, Joseph.
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2010
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (175 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?
  • CHAPTER ONE Nation in Translation: The (Im)Possibility of the Local?
  • CHAPTER TWO Indigenizing Texts: Television Translation as Cultural Ventriloquism
  • CHAPTER THREE Dubbing Yiddish, Hidden Rabbi: The Nanny in Translation
  • CHAPTER FOUR Dubbing The Simpsons: Or How Groundskeeper Willie Lost His Kilt in Sardinia
  • CHAPTER FIVE The Sopranos in Italy: Or “Why Should We Care? We Have the Real Mafia Here!”
  • CONCLUSION Translating Stereotypes: The Cultural Politics of Reformatting
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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