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T1 Carving characters in the mind. A theoretical approach to the reception of characters in audio described films.
A1 Fresno, Nazaret
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Audiodescripción
K1 Modelo mental del personaje
AB : From early childhood on we are exposed to characters in books, cartoons, films, theatre plays, and video games. Through these media we  enter  fascinating  fictional  worlds  that  seduce  our  imagination  with  every  page or scene. As the events unfold, we become captivated by the story and its protagonists, whose deeper feelings are outlined in a succession of words and/or images that the audience needs to endow with meaning. In their search for comprehension,  readers  and  spectators  �picture�  the  situations  described  in  their  minds  by  creating  multimodal  representations  (mental  models)  about  the events taking place, the place and time in which they occur and, especially, the people involved. This paper is an attempt to explore how audiences receive and  understand  audio-described  film  characters.  Drawing  on  research  from  Cognitive  Narratology,  Film  Studies  and  Social  Psychology,  it  will  be  argued  that spectators and audio-description users (re)create characters, that is, they extract  information  from  the  film  and  they  endow  it  with  meaning  with  the  help of their own mental schemata. Through this process they create the initial mental model of the characters, which will be updated all throughout the film experience. At the core of the model is the characters’ psyche, which constitutes a  conceptual  framework  that  aids  spectators  by  ascribing  coherence  to  the  narrative  events.  A  case  study  analysing  the  step-by-step  reception  process  1This  paper  is  part  of  a  doctoral  research  framed  within  the  PhD  in  Translation  and  Cross-Cultural  Studies offered by the Department of Translation and Interpreting and East Asian Studies at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. It is also part of the project �Linguistic and sensorial accessibility: technologies for voiceover and audio description of an audio-described character will be provided to explore how users create mental representations from the integrated information they receive from the film (dialogues and sounds) and from the audio description.
PB Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación
SN 1139-7489
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23144
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23144
LA eng
NO Hermeneus, 2016, n. 18. p. 59-92
DS UVaDOC
RD 19-abr-2024