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When seeing and hearing do not help: communication failures in Canadian films
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Arbeit, Marcel |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | In Canadian cinematography, with its Anglophone and Francophone branches and rich new currents from other cultures, the interest in communication gaps and failures is enormous, although the filmmakers mostly deal with them in global and universal communication contexts. This article examines various aspects of miscommunication through subtitles and focuses on the problems of monolingual people in a foreign-language environment, either in a foreign country (as in Peter Mettler’s Tectonic Plates) or in a different part of their native country (the frustration of English-speaking people in Francophone Québec in Denis Villeneuve’s “Le Technétium” and Patricia Rozema’s Desperanto). In this context, the article explores the unreliability of human sight and hearing and investigates the roles and possibilities of various forms of nonlinguistic, especially visual communication, as presented in Atom Egoyan’s En Passant (Passing Through) and Mettler’s Tectonic Plates. |
| Starting Page | 137 |
| Ending Page | 155 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.5817/BSE2013-2-9 |
| Volume Number | 39 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/bitstream/handle/11222.digilib/130314/1_BrnoStudiesEnglish_39-2013-2_11.pdf?sequence=1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2013-2-9 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
