Fansub

Quick meaning: Fansub is a noun meaning Subtitles translated by amateurs.

Meaning

Subtitles translated by amateurs.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) Translation of subtitles by amateurs.
2. (intransitive) To translate subtitles as an amateur.

Example Sentences

In the case of fansub, the danmaku interface effectively visualizes and mediates the cosmopolitan contact zone as a layer of paratextual comments on screen (Fig 8.5).

While Díaz Cintas and Muños Sánchez (2006) hint at the implications of fansub for commercial audiovisual translation norms, Pérez González (2006) places the practice in the frame of ‘interventionist’ goals emerging in the media landscape, with fans’ search for authenticity in translation.

The practices of fansub (user translation of a film from its original language into another and adding subtitles) and fandub (user dubbing or redubbing of a film in a way that usually changes its storyline, dialogue, and character personalities) gains more producers and a larger audience every month, and remixing is now standard musical practice.

Word Forms

• fansubs
• fansubbing
• fansubbed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fandub, fandubbing, fanslation, fanlation, fanfilm, fancam.

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