SCMS TRANSLATION GALLERY

Welcome to the SCMS Translation Gallery. In the last decade our organization has actively sought to internationalize, holding its conferences outside the borders of the US and steadily increasing its membership from ranks of scholars working outside the US.

The aim of the Translation Gallery is to encourage this internationalization across the faultlines of translation. It is a commonplace that, for a number of reasons (most especially the economics of publishing), translation of scholarship out of English by far surpasses translation into English. This trend is in turn exacerbated by the general tendency to deploy English to be the lingua franca of so much global intellectual exchange tout court. In the process the vast body of scholarship, criticism and conversations about cinema in other languages tends to remain invisible other than within the narrow services of national cinema studies.

The Gallery is something of an experiment: we provisionally think of it a bulletin board for anyone interested in bringing a relevant text or document into the orbit of English-language film and media scholars. Once posted on this page, the text will await its translator—whether in full or as a fragment only. The translator can choose whether to publish his or her translation elsewhere (and simply send the Translation Gallery a courtesy note and a reference to the publication), or else to post it on this site (in which case the committee will vet the translation for some basic standard of accuracy).

To post a translation notice, email the committee chair, Natasa Durovicova at natasa-durovicova@uiowa.edu.

A note on copyright: the translator retains copyright to the translation. If the original text you wish to post for translation is not in public domain, or already on-line, you might want to initially post a brief note and reference about the nature of the text, then solve any permissions issue individually.

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Please address all correspondence, suggestions, requests etc Natasa Durovicova (see below).

For the voting period until summer 2009, the Translation Committee members are:

Natasa Durovicova (University of Iowa, Chair): natasa-durovicova@uiowa.edu

Scott Curtis (Northwestern U; SCMS Executive Board): scurtis@northwestern.edu

Vinzenz Hediger (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum): Vinzenz.Hediger@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Priya Jaikumar (University of Southern California) : pjaikumar@cinema.usc.edu

Kathleen Newman (University of Iowa): kathleen-newman@uiowa.edu

Zhang Zhen (New York University): zz6@nyu.edu