{"id":450,"date":"2017-12-14T17:40:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?page_id=450"},"modified":"2019-06-18T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T15:55:26","slug":"titling-across-continents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/opportunities-for-students\/the-italian-translation-curriculum-and-internship-project\/titling-across-continents\/","title":{"rendered":"Translating Voices Across Continents: Surtitles for Theater (Expo 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cTranslating Voices Across Continents: A Project for Theater and Translation\u201d (TVAC alternatively stands for “Titling Voices Across Continents”) is both an educational project and a professional experiment that will result in the creation of English sur-titles for Italian and international theater productions. On the one hand, the project gives American university students, directly engaged at the creative level, the opportunity to familiarize themselves with a specific aspect of the multimedia translation sector. On the other hand, it is a valuable service that will increase language access to the prestigious\u00a0Piccolo Teatro di Milano<\/a>\u2019s productions for a wider audience. These productions are part of the Piccolo Teatro\u2019s ad hoc\u00a0calendar<\/a>\u00a0for an international audience on the occasion of\u00a0Expo 2015<\/a>\u00a0(Milan, May-October). \u00a0\u200c<\/p>\n

Stemming from a proposal by the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, the project was developed by Prescott Studio, a reference point in Europe for theatrical titling, and by Montclair State University (NJ, USA). Through the Inserra Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, the project takes on an interdisciplinary quality, a cosmopolitan academic vision, and a special look at the excellence of the Italian cultural tradition. Prescott Studio, as supervisor, will offer the professional expertise, sensibility, and organizational experience needed, while the Inserra Chair and the professors in the Italian BA program (Department of Spanish and Italian) at Montclair State University, through their own student interns, will oversee the adaptations of the sur-titles into English.<\/p>\n

TVAC was also developed out of a panel held at Montclair State University on\u00a0Dec. 5, 2015<\/span><\/span>\u00a0called\u00a0Reading Foreign Voices<\/a>\u00a0in which the relevance of titling was illustrated by several experts (see video<\/a>), including Mauro Conti of Prescott Studio, via a targeted\u00a0slideshow on sur-titles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The group of experts involved includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n