To make you see: Linguistic and translational insights in audiovisual literature

One of the most prolific branches of Translation Studies – the ‘modern’ take on translatology developed also thanks to the endeavours of literary scholars of the likes of James S. Holmes, Gideon Toury and André Lefevere – audiovisual translation (AVT) has grown almost in parallel with film adaptation studies, the area of research which investigates the dynamic and intersemiotic relationship between literary source texts and the films (and later TV shows) which are based on or take inspiration from them. Even so, the two disciplines have had little to say to each other and, with few exceptions, AVT has comparatively neglected the many illustrious or less illustrious hypotexts on which much of the phantasmagoria of images and sounds which is at the heart of its reflection has been based.