A Report On E-C Translation Of The Excerpts From The Great War In American And British Cinema,1918-1938 Art Amidst The Ashes

A country’s comprehensive national strength can be reflected in the development of its film and television culture industry.China has been vigorously developing film and television culture industry to implement the strategy of developing a strong culture.The Great War in American and British Cinema,1918–1938:Art Amidst the Ashes,is one of Palgrave’s series on media history.By discussing the development of American and British film industry during the First World War,this book tells the relationship between film,economy and society in that period,which can provide valuable inspiration for the development of China’s film and television culture industry.This translation report selects the first chapter of The Great War in American and British Cinema,1918–1938:Art Amidst the Ashes,which mainly expounds the history and background of film making during world War I and brings back the social conditions of that time.Several popular war films are discussed to show how American and British politics and culture are affected by films in the selected chapter.Belonging to social science text,this chapter covers a wide range of aspects,including film,literature,sociology,history and so on.Based on the characteristics of this text,the translator adopts Integrated Approach,makes an overall analysis from the macro level such as cultural connotation to the micro level of words and sentences under the perspective of integral consciousness and discourse consciousness,and selects appropriate translation strategies according to the analysis results.Cultural vocabulary translation is discussed from extending and selecting cultural words’ meaning;sentence translation is analyzed from division and recombination of simple and juxtaposed sentences,and “scene-frame” method of compound sentences;discourse translation is examined from intratextual coherence and intertextual coherence.Throughout the whole translation practice,Integrated Approach provides targeted guidance for the translation of the text.The translation of this book can provide material for the study of World War I so that people can know more about war from literary works and understand the preciousness of the contemporary theme of era “peace and development”.The translator chooses Integrated Approach to guide the translation of social science text,which can provide reference for the translation and research of such texts.