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Since when is Fran Drescher Jewish? : dubbing stereotypes in The nanny, the Simpsons, and the Sopranos / Chiara Francesca Ferrari ; foreword by Joseph Straubhaar.

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"Since when is Fran Drescher Jewish?" This was Chiara Francesca Ferrari's reaction when she learned that Drescher's character on the television sitcom The Nanny was meant to be a portrayal of a stereotypical Jewish-American princess. Ferrari had only seen the Italian version of t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Ferrari, Chiara, 1975-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, ©2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Minorities on television.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) on television.
Ethnicity on television.
Dubbing of television programs.
Foreign television programs > Social aspects > Italy.
Television programs > Social aspects > United States.
Dubbing of television programs
Ethnicity on television
Foreign television programs > Social aspects
Minorities on television
Stereotypes (Social psychology) on television
Television programs > Social aspects
Italy
United States
Table of Contents:
  • Nation in translation: the (im)possibility of the local?
  • Indigenizing texts : television translation as cultural ventriloquism
  • Dubbing Yiddish, hidden rabbi : The nanny in translation
  • Dubbing The Simpsons : or how groundskeeper Willie lost his kilt in Sardinia
  • The Sopranos in Italy : or "why should we care? we have the real mafia here!"
  • Conclusion.

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