Part I. Translating Humour in the Global Media; 1. That's Not Funny Here: Humorous Advertising Across Boundaries; 2. Humor In Translated Cartoons and Comics; 3. And the Oscar Goes To...: A Study of the Simultaneous Interpretation of Humour at the Academy Awards Ceremony; Part II. Translating Humour on Screen; 4. Japanese TV Entertainment: Framing Humour With Open Caption Telop; 5. The Importance of Not Being Earnest: Translating Humour in Video Games; 6. Translating Audiovisual Humour: A Hong Kong Case Study; Part III. Humour, Translating and Quality; 7. Audiences and Translated Humour: An Empirical Study; 8. Language-Play, Translation, and Quality - With Examples From Dubbing and Subtitling; Part IV. Translating Humour for the Big Screen; 9. Woody Allen's Themes Through His Films, and His Films Through Their Translations; 10. On the (Mis/Over/Under) Translation Of The Marx Brothers' Humour; Part V. Translating Sitcoms; 11. Language, Comedy and Translation in the BBC Sitcom 'Allo'Allo!; 12. Laughing To Death: Dubbed and Subtitled Humour In Six Feet Under; 13. Dynamic Versus Static Discourse: Will & Grace and Its Spanish Dubbed Version; Bibliography; Index.

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