An Introduction to Audio Description: A practical guide (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138848153)

An Introduction to Audio Description is the first comprehensive, user-friendly student guide to the theory and practice of audio description, or media narration, providing readers with the skills needed for the effective translation of images into words for the blind and partially-sighted. Covering the key genres of audio description and supplemented with exercises and discussion points throughout, this is the essential textbook for all students and translators involved in the practice of audio description. Accompanying film clips are also available on the Routledge Translation Studies Portal: http: //cw.routledge.com/textbooks/translationstudies/.